- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:46:24 +0100
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- cc: "John A. Grant" <jagrant@gsc.nrcan.gc.ca>, www-validator@w3.org
On 05.02.01 at 12:26, Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, John A. Grant wrote:
>
>> Line 13, character 15:
>> <meta name="last_modified" content="20000301">
>> Error: character _ is not allowed in the value of attribute NAME
>
>My best stab at this is as follows: [...]
> 2. The HTML 4 DTDs declare NAME as being of type LanguageCode.
> I don't know why - that's just how it is.
The "name" attribute to the "META" element is defined as a SGML "NAME"
token and is normatively described in prose as:
# ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be
# followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"),
# underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").
[ HTML 4.01 Specification, 6.2 SGML basic types, PDF ]
This, BTW, is new as of HTML 4.01 IIRC; HTML 4.0 defined the "name"
attribute differently, but I haven't checked exactly how.
Received on Monday, 5 February 2001 09:00:55 UTC