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- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:27:06 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3448
Summary: nested tags should be flaged as invalid
Product: Validator
Version: HEAD
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: check
AssignedTo: link@pobox.com
ReportedBy: w3cbus@soral.net
QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org
Overview Description:
According to http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/#prohibitions
a form tag cannot be a descendant of another form tag
However, a nested form validates correctly.
Steps to Reproduce:
Validate this test case:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>TITLE</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="f1" action="/action0">
<div><form id="f2" action="/action1"><div>hello 1</div></form></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Actual Results:
Passed validation
Expected Results:
Failed validation, 1 error
Build & Date
Markup Validation Service v0.7.2 on 2006-07-12
Received on Wednesday, 12 July 2006 23:27:08 UTC