Closing BODY tag missing - HTML 4.01 compliant?

Hello,


thanks for your great validation tool published on the web at
http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html . I used this and am wondering,
whether it is correct, that an HTML 4.01 strict document is allowed to omit
the closing </BODY> tag. I did so, and your validator did not complain. The
strange thing is that your parse tree shows the closing tag. You may try the
following document with the above link and the first 3 check boxes ticked
(Show source input - Show an outline of this document - Show parse tree):

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <title>Closing BODY tag missing</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p> In this document, the closing body tag is missing, but it is HTML
4.01 strict compliant.</p>
    <div>
      <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">
        <img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401.png" alt="Valid HTML
4.01!" height="31" width="88">
      </a>
    </div>
</html>


In addition, the "Revalidate" does not work when using "File upload" method
for validation.


Best   Regards
Roland Willeke

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Received on Friday, 22 March 2002 11:59:11 UTC