It seems to me that the following problem has not been addressed at the detailed level, although the general advice of not using <BR /> like notations with non-XHTML doctypes has been given (and helps to avoid the problem). On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Chris wrote: > Sorry, it's behind a login, so I can't post a URL, however, here is a > larger chunk of the code. Generally, I think anyone asking for help with validating a page should take the trouble of uploading a copy of it onto the Web, when needed. > <p/> This is the heart of the matter, in the technical sense. Using the WDG validator http://www.htmlhelp.com/validator/ gives a hint: <p/> ^Warning: net-enabling start-tag; possibly missing required quotes around an attribute value I'm afraid I'm partly guilty of that particular formulation, since I have mentioned that the situation where a validator thinks that there's a NET enabling start tag _typically_ results from not quoting an attribute value, as explained in my "Saga of the slashed validators", http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/qattr.html In this case, the informative warning is partly misleading, since the problem results from the use of <p/>, presumably meant to serve as an empty p element (for some odd reason - such elements are explicitly frowned upon in HTML specifications, though they are formally valid). What happens when a validator sees <p/> is that it treats it as starting a construct of the form <p/.../ which is, by SGML rules, a valid shorthand for <p>...</p> Hence, the first slash "/" in the character data content is taken as NET (Null End Tag), as </p>, which in this case means that the p element would be closed even though an a element inside it has not been closed - thus, "end tag for "A" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this". -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Received on Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:05:05 UTC
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