- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:04:56 +0100 (BST)
- To: James Leek <jim.leek@admin.ox.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, James Leek wrote: > Line 39, column 17: the name and VI delimiter can be omitted from > an attribute specification only if SHORTTAG YES is specified That's an SGML abbreviated form that's not supported in XML. > <option selected value="4">Brands Hatch - 02/09/2003</option> ... which you just used. That's fine as HTML, but in XML (and hence XHTML) all attributes have to be given in full as attribute="value". So the bare word "selected" isn't allowed. > Unfortunately this means nothing to me, and I can also find nothing > about this on the W3C site. Even a search for "VI delimiter" yields > nothing. a search for SHORTTAGs would turn up some more surprising things :-) Folks - that error message really is unhelpful. Time for another prod in the direction of Liam's and/or my updates? -- Nick Kew
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