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**purk** · 12-05-2005, 06:39 AM

What's wrong with my code? ;

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>blah</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-uk" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL" />
<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="description" content="home"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/style.css"/>

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="feed.xml"/>
</head>

The W3C markup validator finds hundreds of errors, here's a few of the best;

1) there is no attribute "XMLNS"
2) there is no attribute "XML:LANG"
3) document type does not allow element "META" here
4) document type does not allow element "LINK" here

and my personal favorite;

5) end tag for element "HEAD" which is not open
6) document type does not allow element "BODY" here

am i missing something here?

btw: i know zip about xhtml, it was something someone else added for me.

thanks brains

;p

**chrishirst** · 12-05-2005, 07:14 AM

well it's probably because your markup code is in XHTML but your Doctype HTML4.01 Transitional

Decide which it is going to be and either change your code to html or use a XHTML doctype.

**purk** · 12-05-2005, 07:43 AM

hmmmm, well as far as i know (and that's not too far) all my code is in html.
i got that dtd from the w3schools website so i figured it would be ok, but maybe (likely) i misunderstood.
can you suggest where i might find a suitable xhtml dtd example to get an idea what mine should look like?

thanks for the help thus far mr hirst.

what's the weather like in bp?

**chrishirst** · 12-05-2005, 09:43 AM

nope the markup is xhtml, well the bit up there is anyway. tags all lowercase and ending with /> is the giveaway

W3C Doctypes

Weather isn't too bad at all, bit on the cold side for venturing down to the beach though.

**purk** · 12-05-2005, 10:21 AM

awesome, that was the very page i'd been looking for, for the past three hours.

all works wonderfully now - cheers (again)

;p

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