- From: <Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 08:56:14 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- cc: Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Otto Stolz wrote: > an obvious syntax error is not diagnosed by the validator: > </OL > > <P> > i. e., the closing ">" is missing from the end-of-OL tag. It is a typo in practical terms and should be fixed, but it is not a syntax error with respect to the formal rules, and a validator's job is to check conformance to those rules, and only that. The construct </OL<P> is formally valid (and equivalent to </OL><P>) due to so-called short-hand markup rules, see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.7 for an informal explanation, and SGML documentation for rigorous rules. Browsers generally do not support short-hand markup, which on the other hand is what HTML specifications officially allow. This is unfortunate, but a validator has to do what a validator has to do. > I am not regularly reading this list; so please adress (cc:) any > check-backs to me, privately. I do this time, but please note in future that this is not normal practice in public mailing lists. Discussions on this list are available at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/ -- Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/ or http://yucca.hut.fi/yucca.html
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