- From: Christopher R. Maden <crism@maden.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 23:11:44 -0700
- To: www-validator@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I was a bit startled to find an HTML 4.01 Transitional document passing the validator using <img /> syntax. I finally figured out why - it is valid SGML (of course). However, it definitely doesn't mean what the author thought: it means an img tag ('<img /') followed by a greater-than in character data. I don't expect the SGML parser to catch this, however, it might be a good idea for the validator to flag any use of NET in a non-XML document. There's a post at <URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Feb/0151.html > which shows awareness of the issue; however, it's inaccurate. The <link /> syntax is *not* legal, as it dumps a > in character data inside the head, where it's not allowed. I realize we can't turn SHORTTAG off, but a post-validation analysis is probably warranted. ~Chris - -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, crism consulting DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPOyIIKxS+CWv7FjaEQIXTgCgg73Oot3AvEa2eh9L0icVNIgAEVEAnjNT tIlrgR1QbT8iwYAmZjmTQaRV =vZWI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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