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    <bug>
          <bug_id>16412</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2012-03-17 10:10:11 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>missing head open tag is not reported as error</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2012-03-17 14:35:22 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>Validator</product>
          <component>check</component>
          <version>HEAD</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Linux</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>INVALID</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>support</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking">dave.null</assigned_to>
          
          
          <qa_contact name="qa-dev tracking">www-validator-cvs</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>65694</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="">support</who>
    <bug_when>2012-03-17 10:10:11 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>if i validate the following html the validator does not complain about the missing opening head tag:

&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM&gt;
&lt;html&gt;

&lt;title&gt;dd&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

Shouldn&apos;t this be the case?</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>65695</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="">support</who>
    <bug_when>2012-03-17 10:13:54 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>also passing with this:

&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd&quot;&gt;
&lt;html&gt;

&lt;title&gt;dd&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;&lt;div&gt;dwwfef&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>65698</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Ville Skyttä">ville.skytta</who>
    <bug_when>2012-03-17 14:35:22 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#h-7.4.1

7.4.1 The HEAD element
Start tag: optional, End tag: optional</thetext>
  </long_desc>
      
      

    </bug>

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