[Pmwiki-users] Wiki HTML validation issues

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Fri Mar 12 19:54:53 CST 2004


On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:18:14PM +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:23:49AM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > Really?  Which page(s)?  I'm trying to eliminate the errors.
> All of 'em, see for example:
> http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.kallisti.net.nz/Main/HomePage
> 
> However, I wonder if the validator is broken, based on the errors it 
> gives (unless there is an actual error that is causing it to get 
> confused), see the parse tree for the crazyness.

IMO, the problems with the trailing slashes in the <link ... /> and <meta ... />
tags are bugs in the validator.  They're correct for XHTML, and should be
valid in HTML as well (same as <br /> is a valid construction).

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