- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:00:37 +0100 (BST)
- To: Aleksi Suhonen <ams@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Aleksi Suhonen wrote: > http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~ams/uus/validator_error.html 404. > I suspected that it might have been because of the usage of > <script></script> instead of <script/>, but after I fixed that, <script/> would be wrong. Not necessarily invalid, but certainly wrong. <script></script> is right. > the validator just picked another random point in the document > (the 'c' in 'type="text/css"' in fact) and gave the same error. you didn't say what error. > ... > <TITLE> Capitals indicate an HTML doctype. So the XML <script/> is bogus in every way. > Axu's Homepage Version 3.0 > </TITLE> > ATYPE CDATA text/javascript > ASRC CDATA http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~ams/apu/default.js > <SCRIPT> > > <link rel="StyleSheet" type="text What's happening is (broadly speaking) explained in http://valet.webthing.com/page/parsemode.html Validate in "web" or "fussy" mode and use a strict doctype to get more meaningful error reports. > So the parser is definately being thrown off at some point. That's a problem if you use a hopelessly loose doctype, designed for legacy stuff in 1997/8. -- Nick Kew
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