- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:06:12 +0100
- To: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Produces very odd diagnostics indeed, Olivier :
http://validator.w3.org:8001/check?uri=http://www.rhul.ac.uk/ ->
Unknown Document Type and Parse Mode!
The MIME Media Type (text/html) for this document is used to serve
both SGML and XML based documents, and no DOCTYPE Declaration was
found to disambiguate it. Parsing will continue in SGML mode and
with a fallback DOCTYPE similar to HTML 4.01 Transitional.
This page is not Valid -//RHBNC//DTD HTML 4.01 Augmented//EN!
1) If there was no DOCTYPE declaration, how does it know that it
should be -//RHBNC//DTD HTML 4.01 Augmented//EN
I should add that it commences :
1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//RHBNC//DTD HTML 4.01 Augmented//EN"
2: "http://www.rhul.ac.uk/shared/dtds/HTML-4.01-Augmented.dtd"
3: >
Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.
1. Warning Line 76 column 27: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "nbsp".
<td> <a target="_top" href="/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImg
2) This diagnostic is not issued by the current validator :
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.rhul.ac.uk/
Philip Taylor
Received on Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:09:13 UTC