Re: Validation problem - again

Hi Pat:
The validator was updated last night - you may want to read the list
archives at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2001JulSep/
to see what changes were made.

~ Kathleen Anderson
Spider Web Woman Designs
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com
email: kathleen(at)spiderwebwoman.com


----- Original Message -----
From: <grandane(at)grandane.com>
To: "HWG Style" <hwg-style(at)hwg.org>
Sent: September 14, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: Validation problem - again


> It's me again :{
>
> Over the past days have been getting each and every one of my pages
> validated - until yesterday; there appears to be new validation format
> which, although it states there are "No errors found" it then goes on to
> say...
>
> "This document would validate as the document type specified if you
> updated it to match the Options used. "
>
> My pages were orignally Doc Type....4.0 but as validation does not cover
> this specifically but only 4.01 I changes Doc type to this and, before
> yesterday, validated O.K.
>
> Further explanation on the validation form gives different explanations
> as follows:
>
> Use the 'charset' parameter in the Content-Type header of HTTP. Example:
>             Content-Type: text/html; charset=EUC-JP
>              For XML, use the encoding pseudo-attribute in the xml
> declaration at the start of a
>             document or the text declaration at the start of an entity.
> Example:
>             <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
>             For HTML, use the <meta> tag. Example:
>             <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=utf-8"> ........
>
>  Am afraid I havn't a clue what this is about, I tried adding the meta
> tag referred to above for HTML to my already entered meta tags, but it
> made no difference, all the pages I have already validated clean and
> completely this pass week, no longer appear to be OK because all now
> come up with this same result..."This document would validate as the
> document type specified if you updated it to match the Options used. "
>
> Can someone tells me what this means and what I should do
> to be able to validate cleanly and completely?
>
> Validating at: http://validator.w3.org/check
>
> Pat Greenfield
>
>

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