- From: Gabor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:08:14 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Hi! I have prepared two test documents to present, what I think is a bug in the online HTML validator. Let's say we have a HTML 4.01 document, but would like to be close to XHTML and use <img ... /> <br /> and the like. This is the case in my two examples. First: if I try to use such constructs in the head, such as <link ... /> then the validator thinks I am closing the head element, which seems quite buggy. Following on this, I have checked the HTML 4.01 spec and truly it says, that <link> ending tags are forbidden. But anyway, the validator should not think that the <head> is closed... http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fgoba.hu%2Fvaltest.html Second: After my finding that <link> ending tag is forbidden, I decided to try a <br /> in a body of a normal document. It works, and the validator does not think I am closing the body tag (while <br> ending tags are also forbidden). http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fgoba.hu%2Fvaltest2.html So after all it seems the validator does not seem to be too strict about closing tags which should not be closed, but it has a bug in the <head> parsing. Please include my as a recepient in any responses, I am not on the list. And please fix in case it is a bug in the validator :) Have a nice weekend, Gabor Hojtsy
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