Conformation and the W3C Validator

by Stefan Huszics <Sauron(at)pp.sbbs.se>

Date:	Fri, 25 May 2001 02:32:58 +0200
To:	hwg-xml(at)hwg.org
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Hi

I'm been trying to work my way over to XML/XHTML by starting to
introduce the things under compability in the XHTML 1.0 spec in my HTML
4.01 documents.

However for some reson my code doesn't validate at the W3C validators,
and I just don't understand why.
For instance this simple code below produces many errors (because on the
traling /> in the META and LINK entities)
-----
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

Some text
----

Now, am I missing something here (like why you are not allowed to close
the META & LINK entities for some reason) ?

Or is this plain simply a bug in the Validator and in that case where/to
whom do I turn to have it fixed?

-- 
/Stefan Huszics

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