- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:38:08 +0000
- To: Glynn Williams <glynn@wowdesignsolutions.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 22:23 +0000, Glynn Williams wrote: > Can you explain what is wrong with my code please, not sure what this > means. > 1. Line 2, column 0: character "<" invalid > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > <html> You aren't allowed a "<" character inside the doctype declaration. Valid doctype declarations are: http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html HTML 4.01 Strict is generally recommended for new documents. > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1" /> Don't use XHTML style self-closing tags in HTML. The "/>" means something somewhat different under SGML rules.
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