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Re: Validator fails to detect invalid document

From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Date: 11 Nov 2002 02:41:36 +0200
To: Peter Favrholdt <pfavr@how.dk>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <1036975297.4500.232.camel@bobcat.ods.org> 

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 22:29, Peter Favrholdt wrote:

> But, I think I've found a bug in the validator regarding the <body> tag:
> if the <body> tag misses the trailing > it is not detected!

It's not a bug, but an allowed construct in HTML.  See eg:
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2001OctDec/0015.html>
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2000AprJun/0088.html>

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\/ille Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Received on Sunday, 10 November 2002 19:41:20 UTC

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