XHTML Validation broken

The W3C validator is seriously broken with respect to XHTML at this point.

It recognises that <P> != <p> but it doesn't flag <P> as an error. Same
for all other tags.

It doesn't enforce required attributes. This validates:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>bad html</title>
</head>
<body>
<img/>
</body>
</html>

Note the <img> tag which is missing two required attributes. The W3C
validator -does- catch this in HTML 4.0 files.

It doesn't even catch parent/child conflicts. In the above xhtml <img/> is
within <body> and this is an error. This is caught in HTML 4.0 Strict
documents.

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Received on Tuesday, 30 May 2000 14:41:41 UTC