Re: valign attribute rejected in colgroup element for XHTML 1.1

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:03:37 +0000
Marcus <dontreply@not.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use Amaya 8.7 on Windows 2000 to edit XHTML 1.1 documents.
> 
> I have found that Amaya reports errors when I load pages that contain 
> the "valign" attribute within a colgroup tag.
> 
> For example, if you add the following table to an XHTML 1.1 document:
> 
>      <table>
>        <colgroup align="right" valign="top"></colgroup>
>        <colgroup align="left" valign="top"></colgroup>
>        <tr>
>          <th>Date:</th>
>          <td>22/10/2004</td>
>        </tr>
>        <tr>
>          <th>Start Time:</th>
>          <td>19:00</td>
>        </tr>
>      </table>
> 
> ....then Amaya will report the error:
> 
>      Invalid XHTML attribute "valign"
> 
> 
> However, I think the valign attribute *is valid* for colgroup elements 
> in XHTML 1.1.  Here is the relevant part of the W3C spec:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_tablemodule
> 
> 
> My documents successfully validate in both the online W3C validator and 
> a validator we have set up using xmllint on our unix server.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Marcus
> 
> 
> btw- Sorry I havent entered a valid email address, I'm too affraid of 
> spam.  I hope this mail is accepted, I will watch the mailing-list 
> archives for replies.


This problem is now fixed in the CVS version.
Thanks for the report
     Irene.
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