- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-validator-0003@earth.li>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:15:08 +0000 (UTC)
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
At 2001-03-29T23:23-0000, Osmo Saarikumpu wrote:- > Studying this issue it seems that the DTD does not require end tags for any > element! E.g.: > > <form action="foo"> > <textarea name="test" rows="3" cols="40" /> > </form> > > is valid (even seems to work ok in Opera 5). That being the case, it would > seem that the validators are correct. Which raises onether question: which > is normative, the DTD or the Recommendation? The DTD is a (normative) part of the Recommendation. Strict conformance with the DTD (i.e. that which is assessed by the W3C validation service) is necessary for document conformance, but *not sufficient* (Sec. 3.1.1 <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/index.html#strict>). Tim Bagot
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