- From: Luke Flesch <luke.flesch@yale.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 12:54:32 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
To whom it may concern,
I am just beginning to learn XHTML and I was trying out your
validation service today. To my dismay, my carefully-crafted XHTML was
not validating. Looking into the matter further, I discovered a startling
fact - the minimal XHTML file listed in the W3C XHTML 1.0 Specification
DOES NOT VALIDATE. The file is listed below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Virtual Library</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Moved to <a href="http://vlib.org/">vlib.org</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
When I removed the first line, which specifies the XML version and
encoding, it validated just fine as did the document I had written. Thus,
the problem seems pretty clear.
Please forgive me if I have made some grevious error. Thanks.
-Luke Flesch
Received on Sunday, 24 September 2000 14:37:45 UTC