- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:27:29 +0200 (EET)
- To: "Mellem, Dan" <Dan.Mellem@pomona.k12.ca.us>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mellem, Dan wrote: > Error [63]: "character data is not allowed here" - - > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" - - > <META http-equiv="refresh" content="30;http://www.w3.org" /> In practical terms, your mistake is that you're using the XHTML feature of "self-closing" tags, the "/" before ">", in an HTML 4.01 document. Remove the "/". Don't mix HTML 4.01 and XHTML. In theoretical terms, the "/" before ">" actually closes the <META> tag by SGML rules, leaving the ">" as a lone character outside tags. Within a <head> element, where we are here, no character data outside tags is allowed. For a more detailed explanation, check http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html#preface -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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