- From: Nir Dagan <nir@nirdagan.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 00:16:08 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Concerning:
"1) <script language=text/javascript>
This is invalid because the attribute value must be enclosed
with quotes. However, the validator only reported an error
at the </script> element, far below, complaining that there
was no opening script element."
This seemingly wrong error message may very well be
correct, although confusing.
The complete document:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<script language=text/javascript> foo bar / </script>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
some text here
</body>
</html>
gives me in http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/direct.html
The error:
"Error: end tag for element SCRIPT which is not open; try removing the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements"
This is because according to SGML the content of the script element is considered to be
in between the two slashes (the first in text/javascript) and the second before the </script>
I.e., it is equivalent to:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<script language=text>javascript> foo bar </script> </script>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
some text here
</body>
</html>
This construct is discussed in:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.3
Strange, but true.
Nir.
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http://www.nirdagan.com
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Received on Tuesday, 20 June 2000 13:11:05 UTC