closing slash at the end of the base HTML tag leads to an error

I need to be conform both with HTML4.01 and XHTML.
The base element does not allow the closing tag at the end in HTML but requires it in XHTML.

<base href="xyz" /> <!-- this is correct in XHTML but wrong in HTML4.01
<base href="xyz">   <!-- wrong in XHTML, but wrong in HTML4.01

In HTML specification the closing tag for br element is forbidden as well, but according to the validator <br /> is a right HTML.

Does anyone know the answer how to resolve this problem? Or is this a bug in the valitator?

Thanks in advance,
		Laszlo Jordan


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László Jordán
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Received on Friday, 28 January 2005 02:55:58 UTC