Re: XHTML and W3C Homepage

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001, Aaron W. Silver wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how exactly is the XHTML validator getting past the
> homepage for W3C? The basic spec for XHTML should not allow it to
> validate the page for a number of reasons:
> 
> Markup tags are in upper and lower case (consistancy).
> Attributes are not quoted (lots of them).
> Terminated elements are not adheared to (li tags).
> Non-Terminated empty tags are present (img, br and hr).

Could you elaborate a little and give us example of these bugs? As far
as I can see, the homepage doesn't have such issues. Could you attach
the html file you get at www.w3.org?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Regards,

Dom
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Dominique Hazaël-Massieux - http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/
W3C's Webmaster at MIT
mailto:dom@w3.org - tel: +1-617-258-8143

Received on Wednesday, 11 July 2001 10:40:43 UTC