Posted by Rik on 02/12/07 20:15

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:53:18 +0100, robert maas, see
http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <rem642b@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The URL for my Web page is:
> <http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/HelloPlus/CookBook/CookTop.html>
> The validation site is:
> <http://validator.w3.org/>
> When I ask it to validate my Web page, it gives me this error:
> 1. Error Line 1353 column 14: end tag for "EM" omitted, but its
> declaration does not permit this.
> <em>(reduce #'/ nums :end 9)</em><br />
> + You forgot to close a tag, or
> + you used something inside this tag that was not allowed, and
> the validator is complaining that the tag should be closed
> before such content can be allowed.
> The next message, "start tag was here" points to the particular
> instance of the tag in question); the positional indicator points
> to where the validator expected you to close the tag.
> &#x2709;
> 2. Info Line 1353 column 0: start tag was here.
> <em>(reduce #'/ nums :end 9)</em><br />
> 3. Error Line 1353 column 32: end tag for element "EM" which is not
> open.
> <em>(reduce #'/ nums :end 9)</em><br />
> The Validator found an end tag for the above element, but that
> element is not currently open. This is often caused by a leftover
> end tag from an element that was removed during editing, or by an
> implicitly closed element (if you have an error related to an
> element being used where it is not allowed, this is almost
> certainly the case). In the latter case this error will disappear
> as soon as you fix the original problem.
>
> The / it's complaining about is in the middle of ordinary text, not
> within any tag, so why is it even looking there to find anything
> wrong? There's an opening EM tag at the start of the line, and a
> matching closing tag near the end, with no tags of any kind
> between. I see nothing wrong. What am I overlooking?

<p /> does not mean what you think it means.... A simple seach/replace
with <p> makes it valid.

Someone just recently pointed that out on a newsgroup, that in SGML
there's a shorttag feature of some kind, so that <h1/This is a header/ is
possible.

So:
<p /> Some text and then some and a / and then some more.
Is actually:
<p>> Some text and then some and a </p> and then some more.

I'm not aware of a browsers that renders it that way, but there's your
answer.
--
Rik Wasmus

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