validator reject minimal HTML 3.2 document from Trevor Caira on 2008-07-28 (www-validator@w3.org from July 2008)

From: Trevor Caira <trevor@caira.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:07:40 -0400
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <488E0AEC.9080308@caira.com>

According to the HTML 3.2 spec[1], a minimal HTML 3.2 document would be:

     <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
     <TITLE>A study of population dynamics</TITLE>

The w3 validator, however, rejects this document with the following error:

     Error  Line 2, Column 45: "HTML" not finished but document ended.

     <TITLE>A study of population dynamics</TITLE>

Is this behavior by design?

Best regards,

Trevor Caira

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#html

Received on Monday, 28 July 2008 21:34:34 UTC