- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:33:26 +0100
- To: Bill Meier <bill@insulators.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 15:58, Bill Meier wrote: > When validating both with 4.01 transitional and 4.01 strict, a missing > </body> > </html> > > at the end of the file does NOT produce any errors... Seems like that is a > pretty basic error? >From the spec: 7.5.1 The BODY element Start tag: optional, End tag: optional http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#h-7.5.1 So no, this isn't a bug in the validator, it just knows HTML better then you do. > But for some reason, 4.01 Frameset DOES produce the expected error!! > (although that is clearly not the validator you want to use) i.e. Validator? Does you mean DTD? > Line 97, column 9: "HTML" not finished but document ended > > </table> ... Its difficult to see where you went wrong as you failed to provide a complete document as an example. My guess would be that you forgot the </noframes> tag, which isn't optional. -- David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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