- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-validator-0004@earth.li>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 11:59:48 +0000 (UTC)
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: Jonathan Wilson <wilson@claborn.net>
At 2001-07-07T07:35-0400, Christian Smith wrote:- > On Friday, July 6, 2001 at 14:46, wilson@claborn.net (Jonathan Wilson) > wrote: > > The error is, it complains about a lack of closing tags on all brakes > > (br tags), and also for img. I have never used ending tags for br or > > img, and in fact I have never seen a page that does use endings for > > those tags. > > My guess is that your pages have an XHTML doctype and that the validator > is correct. If you can provide a reference to a page that generates these > errors we'll be better able to evaluate the problem and determine whether > or not this is a bug in the validator or the HTML. Almost. The validator output attached to Jonathan Wilson's message contains "Error: no document type declaration; will parse without validation". Clearly, in the absence of a DTD, it is impossible to tell which end tags are meant to be optional. Tim Bagot
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