- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 07:33:18 +0100
- To: Martin Baird <chuzza62@ntlworld.com>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On 6 Aug 2007, at 19:52, Martin Baird wrote: > a month ago a document with a root element of <html> passed Xhtml > validation, now it requires > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> Technically, it has always required the xmlns attribute, but a bug in the validator meant that it wasn't flagged when the attribute was missing. I believe this was mentioned under the "Limitations of XML support" link that appeared on the validator results page for XML documents. That bug was fixed in the last major release. > I am writing pages for a website of 100 plus pages which I am > trying to > bring in line with W3c XHTML recommenndations, now most of the > corrections > are incorrect because you are moving the goal posts and your > validation on > my pages is incorrect. The goal posts aren't moving, just the ability of the Markup Validator to detect where a page is relative to them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/
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