Greetings! When validating some of our pages which included the code <BASE target="main"> I went through the W3C validator and passed with flying colors. However running the pages through a HomeSite validator pointed out that BASE has href as a required attribute. Checking the HTML 4 spec I find: <!ELEMENT BASE - O EMPTY -- document base URI --> <!ATTLIST BASE href %URI; #REQUIRED -- URI that acts as base URI -- > So my understanding of the situtation is that the validator is allowing the href attribute to be(incorrectly) left out, and we really ought to have code such as <BASE href="http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/homepage.html" target="main">, for instance. Or am I(and the HomeSite validator) misunderstanding the #REQUIRED portion in the spec? Replies to email(I'm not on the list) would be appreciated. Thanks! -GEReceived on Tuesday, 14 September 1999 13:22:22 UTC
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