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| -rwxr-xr-x | htdocs/docs/errors.html | 25 |
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diff --git a/htdocs/docs/errors.html b/htdocs/docs/errors.html index e25e2a5..ea65e8e 100755 --- a/htdocs/docs/errors.html +++ b/htdocs/docs/errors.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: errors.html,v 1.38 2007-04-02 10:20:26 ville Exp $" ---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2007-04-02 10:20:26 $" +<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: errors.html,v 1.39 2007-05-07 14:43:29 ot Exp $" +--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2007-05-07 14:43:29 $" --><!--#set var="title" value="Error Explanations for The W3C Markup Validation Service" --><!--#set var="relroot" value="../" --><!--#include virtual="../header.html" --> @@ -85,8 +85,12 @@ <li>forgetting to quote an attribute value (where characters such as "%" and "/" are common, but cannot appear without surrounding quotes), or</li> - <li>using XHTML-style closing tags (such as <meta ... />) in HTML 4.01 or - earlier. (Fix: remove the extra / character)</li> + <li>using XHTML-style self-closing tags (such as <meta ... />) + in HTML 4.01 or earlier. To fix, remove the extra slash ('/') + character. For more information about the reasons for this, see + <a href="http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html">Empty + elements in SGML, HTML, XML, and XHTML</a>. + </li> </ul> </div> <p> @@ -551,13 +555,14 @@ ASCII character, or to use an appropriate <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html">character entity</a>. - <!-- http://groups.google.com/group/uk.net.web.authoring/browse_frm/thread/54c97b9c6fb89751 - For more information on Character Encoding on the web, see <a - href="http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/aflavell.html">Alan - Flavell</a>'s excellent <a - href="http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/charset/">HTML Character - Set Issues</a> reference. + <!-- + http://groups.google.com/group/uk.net.web.authoring/browse_frm/thread/54c97b9c6fb89751 + http://www.w3.org/mid/45EFC85A.1000706@dorward.me.uk --> + For more information on Character Encoding on the web, see Alan + Flavell's excellent <a + href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060425191748/ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/">HTML Character + Set Issues</a> reference. </p> <p> This error can also be triggered by formatting characters embedded in |