Posted by Nikita the Spider on 08/12/06 00:14

In article <1p0ryd0ndotlu.dlg@funkenbusch.com>,
Erik Funkenbusch <erik@despam-funkenbusch.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:06:01 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>
> > Failed validation, 67 errors
> >
> > http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.msdn.com%2Fcw
> > ilso%2Farchive%2F2006%2F08%2F10%2F694584.aspx
> >
> > (aka http://tinyurl.com/odw6o )
>
> As I responded in a different thread, this is because of a flaw in the
> W3C's parser that cannot handle XHTML style tags in an HTML 4 document
> (which is legal).

Erik, what are "XHTML-style" tags? Do you mean something like this? with

<foo />

The W3C's validator is not in error (it almost never is); those tags are
not legal in HTML. Jukka has the scoop:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html#why

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