Re: bug report (corrected :-)

Hi Kevin.
(thanks for your corrections, I forwarded your mail to the list this
time.)

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002, Kevin McManus wrote:
> Hi www-validator@xxxxxx
> 
> I believe that you have a bug in your validator
> 
> IMHO the 18 lines of valid HTML4.01 at the following URL clearly
> illustrates a bug with nested lists....
> 
> http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~k.mcmanus/ListTest.html

The validator is right. 

I agree that the HTML spec is unclear about nested lists (only a
deprecated example without closing tags...) but if you look at the DTD
you will see that <ul> does not accept anything but <li> as a child,
hence if you want to nest lists you have to make <ul> a child of <li>,
as in:

<ul>
   <li>foo</li>
   <li>
        <ul>
           <li>bar</li>
           <li>zog</li>
        </ul>
   </li>
</ul>

This is the proper way to do nested lists in HTML 4.01.

Regards,
-- 
Olivier Thereaux - W3C
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