Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 08/11/06 20:36

In alt.html, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:

> On 11 Aug 2006 02:45:53 -0700, Andy Dingley wrote:
>
>> Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>
>>>>see Chris Wilson's response (Chris is the lead program manager of IE)
>>>>
>>>>http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/archive/2006/08/10/694584.aspx
>>>
>>> Failed validation, 67 errors
>
> Actually, this is a bug in the W3C's validator. It's parser can't handle
> XHTML style syntax in HTML 4 documents and throws bogus errors.

Bogus? No, HTML and XHTML are not the same. If you are writing with an
HTML doctype, use HTML syntax; if a XHTML doctype, use XHTML syntax.
They are not the same, therefore these are not bogus errors.

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