Re: Not compliant XHTML MS tests.

Arron Eicholz wrote:
> fantasai wrote:
> 
>> As Anne points out, all of these tests need to validate as XHTML.
>> If they are testing invalid CSS, then they shouldn't pass the
>> *CSS* validator, but they do need to validate as XHTML. Robert's
>> suggetion of using a CDATA section would be the easiest way to
>> fix the tests where CSS data is tripping up the XML parser.
> 
> I agree that cases should validate but there are some exceptions. 
 > when the case is flagged HTMLonly it doesn't necessarily have
 > to validate as XHTML does it? Those cases might not validate
 > for XHTML. There could be all sorts of deprecated attributes
 > and tags in there that might not allow XHTML to validate
 > but would be perfectly fine in HTML.
>
 > Thanks,
 > Arron Eicholz


If the markup is like as you described you should be using a XHTML 
traditional Doctype. Then the markup would pass validation.

Alan

Received on Friday, 4 April 2008 17:08:43 UTC