- From: Gerrit Kaiser <gk@planetgk.de>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:07:01 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
This error occured when feeding the validator a HTML4.01
(strict)-document with markup that uses the short tag-closing method
mandatory in XML but not allowed in HTML4 (e.g. <img />)
The current error message reads as follows:
NET-enabling start-tag requires SHORTTAG YES
Which is, well, not exactly self-explanatory for the average web
author. An explanation that needs an explanation is a bad explanation
;), and therefore I suggest to change the message to something along
the lines of:
This error commonly occures when you close an empty element with '/>'.
This is not allowed in the version of HTML you are using. Either
rethink your choice of the doctype or remove the '/' from the element's
start tag.
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{Gerrit Kaiser} Oldenburg, Germany
http://planetgk.de
Received on Sunday, 31 August 2003 11:14:54 UTC