Microsoft Word from Office 2000 `HTML' fails to validate

From: John Murdie <john@cs.york.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:59:04 +0100 (BST) To: www-validator@w3.org cc: John Murdie <john@cs.york.ac.uk> Message-Id: <E17AYW6-0004kY-00@minster.cs.york.ac.uk> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Friday, 17 January 2020 22:58:27 UTC

Surely this is a FAQ, but I've just found that the `HTML' output of
Microsoft Word doesn't validate with either the W3C or WDG validators:

<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9">
...

I've searched the archive for `microsoft word' and `microsoft html'
without finding any article which addresses this matter directly.
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John A. Murdie
Experimental Officer (Software)
Department of Computer Science
University of York
England