On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, James Leek wrote:
> Line 39, column 17: the name and VI delimiter can be omitted from
> an attribute specification only if SHORTTAG YES is specified
That's an SGML abbreviated form that's not supported in XML.
> <option selected value="4">Brands Hatch - 02/09/2003</option>
... which you just used. That's fine as HTML, but in XML (and hence
XHTML) all attributes have to be given in full as attribute="value".
So the bare word "selected" isn't allowed.
> Unfortunately this means nothing to me, and I can also find nothing
> about this on the W3C site. Even a search for "VI delimiter" yields
> nothing.
a search for SHORTTAGs would turn up some more surprising things :-)
Folks - that error message really is unhelpful. Time for another
prod in the direction of Liam's and/or my updates?
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Nick Kew
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