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RE: Validation issues

From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:29:38 -0400
Message-Id: <a05210606bac11ed4eed8@[10.0.1.2]>
To: "Clark Alexander" <clark@clarkandlucina.com>, "'Bjoern Hoehrmann'" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Cc: <www-validator@w3.org> 

At 22:15 -0400 2003-04-14, Clark Alexander wrote:
>Not that I know what #PCDATA children are, but thanks. What's the
>reference for that? However, wouldn't that not conflict with the goals
>of xhtml? That is to reformulate html so that it is consistent with
>well-formed xml? That doesn't appear to be well formed. While I
>understand that xhtml transitional was pretty tolerant, I was under the
>impression that was fairly limited to merely allowing deprecated
>elements and attributes.

It's well formed. :)
It's not semantically necessary correct, but HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 
doesn't make any conformant requirements on the semantics... so :/

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