- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:10:57 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org>
- cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Eric Gillespie wrote: > Running <http://pretzelnet.org/~epg/tmp/test.html> through the > on-line validator produces the following error: > > * Line 11, column 14: > > <style id="internal-style" type="text/css" media="screen, > print, t ... > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "id" for this element (in > this HTML version) > > The document where i first noticed this began life as a lazy HTML > document, not compliant to any standard. I followed the > recommendations in <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines> > "HTML Compatability Guidelines" to make it a backwards-compatible > document, that validates to the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD. Later i > noticed section C.14, which recommends using the xml-stylesheet > PI. > > Unfortunately, despite that document's recommendations, the > validator does not think the <style> element has an id attribute. > Is this a bug in the validator or the DTD? There is no "id" attribute for the "style" element in HTML or XHTML. -- Liam Quinn
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