Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com> wrote: > Why is the validator passing this as valid? Because this is not invalid. > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <title>Sidebar</title> > </head> > <body> > <p> > 252 Riddle Pond Road<br /> > WTopsham VT 05086<br /> > </p> > </body> > </html> > > This looks like a bug to me. <br /> is an XHTML formatted tag and doesn't > belong in an HTML document. The SGML declaration of HTML 4.01 says "SHORTTAG YES", which allows this kind of shorthand markup. However, in this case the null end-tag (NET) delimiter is "/", so ">" is just treated as character data. In other words, "<br />" is an equivalent of "<br>>" in this case. Try the validator with "Show parse tree" option, then you'll see that ">" after "<br /" is not parsed as part of markup but as just a character in the parse tree. Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web ConsortiumReceived on Tuesday, 27 March 2001 18:32:15 UTC
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