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Posted by Robert Baer on 07/22/07 23:57
Dave Kelly wrote:
> I am confused. I am trying to validate some html code. I get a tentative
> validation with this caveat.
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> The detected DOCTYPE Declaration "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
> HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/HTML 4.01 Transitional">" has been
> suppressed and the DOCTYPE for "HTML 4.01 Transitional" inserted
> instead, but even if no errors are shown below the document will not be
> Valid until you update it to reflect this new DOCTYPE.
>
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>
> It goes on to say:
> The document located at <http://www.texasflyfishers.org/windknots.htm>
> was checked and found to be tentatively valid HTML 4.01 Transitional.
> This means that with the use of some fallback or override mechanism, we
> successfully performed a formal validation using an SGML or XML Parser.
> In other words, the document would validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional if
> you changed the markup to match the changes we have performed
> automatically, but it will not be valid until you make these changes.
>
> I checked 'show source' and the only thing that stands out is the change
> of the 1st line from transitional to loose.
>
> Am I trying to validate in the correct DOCTYPE, 'transitional'?
> Under 'strict' there are 10 errors.
>
> TIA
> Dave
>
I know very little about coding in HTML, but it would not hurt to try
fixing those errors, *one at a time* and doing a re-check; strict first,
transitional second.
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