Validation trouble with link tag

**CadmiumNL** · Jun 29, 2006 04:55

I'm trying to validate the following code and it fails on the first link tag:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
		<title>Validation Test</title>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style/menu.css" />
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="gui.css" />
	</head>
	<body>
		<p>test</p>
	</body>
</html>

Could anyone explain this to me?

**Egor** · Jun 29, 2006 05:27

Sure. You've used X(HT)ML-style self-closing tags ( />) with an HTML 4.0 DOCTYPE.

**CadmiumNL** · Jun 29, 2006 05:31

Aah. So simple

. Thanks!

What about validation errors from text within pre or code tags? How does one solve that?

**Egor** · Jun 29, 2006 07:39

Originally Posted by CadmiumNL

What about validation errors from text within pre or code tags? How does one solve that?

Not sure what you mean there. Are you talling about publishing code snippets with XHTML-style closing tags? Got an example we could look at?

**vgarcia** · Jun 29, 2006 07:45

Originally Posted by CadmiumNL

What about validation errors from text within pre or code tags? How does one solve that?

Convert your offending characters to HTML entities (for example, < and > to < and >, respectively).

**CadmiumNL** · Jun 29, 2006 08:01

Originally Posted by Egor

Not sure what you mean there. Are you talling about publishing code snippets with XHTML-style closing tags? Got an example we could look at?

I was talking about sample code in pre or code tags, in this case javascript. An example I got:

Code:

cannot generate system identifier for general entity "arg2".

RpcObj1.send("/cgi-bin/mijnApplicatie?arg1=test&arg2=nogeentest");

But I think vgarcia is right, I should probably convert & to & or the numeric equivalent.

**CadmiumNL** · Jun 29, 2006 08:07

Yep, that did the trick. Thanks again!

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