- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 06:33:34 +0900 (JST)
- To: jap3003@ksu.edu
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
It seems no one responded, so I would try ... Joseph Pingenot <jap3003@ksu.edu> wrote: > I had a page validate as HTML 4.01, but have a space between the < > and the img. That is, I had (approximately): > < img src="blar.jpg"> > validate. However, it refused to render under any browser available > to me (IE 6, Mozilla 0.9.3, and Netscape 4.78). Is whitespace > allowed between the leading < and the tag text, or is it a validator > bug? White space is not allowed between the leading < (a.k.a. STAGO in SGML terminology) and the element name, however, this is NOT a validator bug. In SGML, when < is not followed by name characters, < is not treated as STAGO but just character data, so in your example, `< img src="blar.jpg">' is not treated as markup but as character data `<', a white space and the text string `img src="blar.jpg">'. So long as #PCDATA is allowed there in a specified DTD, it just validates, but the result will not be what you intended, as browsers (correctly) rendered them as just text string. Note that in XML, when < is not used for markup, it must always be escaped, so (pseudo) markup like `< img src="blar.jpg"/>' will cause a well-formedness error. Hope this helps. Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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