- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:47:33 +0100
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, Mynthon Gmail <mynthon1@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
Robert Burns wrote: > On Jul 7, 2007, at 6:26 AM, Ben Boyle wrote: >> I have noticed the W3C HTML validator is confused by <link ... /> and >> <meta ... /> empty tags, but had assumed it to be a valiator bug. > > I would agree: validator bug. No bug (this needs to be said very clearly). The validator compares the document [1] with the DTD specified in the DOCTYPE directive, and finds bare character data. It goes on to explain : > Mistakes that can cause this error > include putting text directly in the > body of the document and that is effectively what the author has done, since the "/" closed the <link> tag and the following ">" closed the <head> element. Note that the diagnostic is effectively identical to that produced by the very example that the validator cites [2]. Philip Taylor -------- [1] http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Demo-documents/NET.html [2] http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Demo-documents/No-container.html
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