html 4 doc does not parse correctly

The following demo is incorrect html4 and is flagged by
validators as such.  however Amaya does not give
a parser warning 
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head><title>Textarea:VE3LL@RAC.CA</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head><body><h1>Textarea:VE3LL@RAC.CA</h1>
<pre>This is <u>underlined</u> word!</pre>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<textarea id="x" cols="40" rows="3">
This is <u>underlined</u> word!
</textarea>
</body></html>
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John Russell, VE3LL@COGECO.CA
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll
http://home.cogeco.ca/~trains
http://home.cogeco.ca/~cipher

Received on Monday, 19 May 2008 12:57:59 UTC