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http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.w3.org%2Fhtml5%2Fspec%2FOverview.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 Line 218, Column 735: required attribute "TYPE" not specified Line 25722, Column 8: document type does not allow element "P" here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag Line 25723, Column 8: document type does not allow element "P" here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag Line 27375, Column 10: document type does not allow element "TFOOT" here; assuming missing "TABLE" start-tag Line 27379, Column 10: end tag for "TABLE" which is not finished Line 72252, Column 4: end tag for "TABLE" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this
The most reasonable fix would be to use HTML5 itself (and to make pubrules allow specs HTML5 to use HTML5).
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: I've fixed the problems I could find (partially by just removing some of the examples, since they are showing HTML5 features and thus aren't HTML4-compliant).
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4574. Check-in comment: Remove some examples that use HTML5 features from the W3C copy of the spec, since W3C wants the HTML5 spec to use HTML4. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4573&to=4574
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.w3.org%2Fhtml5%2Fspec%2FOverview.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 still reports one warning (which wasn't reported before): ================================================ No Character encoding declared at document level No character encoding information was found within the document, either in an HTML meta element or an XML declaration. It is often recommended to declare the character encoding in the document itself, especially if there is a chance that the document will be read from or saved to disk, CD, etc. ================================================ p.s. the validator service was quite speedy on this very large document, pretty impressive.
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The remaining error message is a bug in the validator. The spec says that a document that consists of pure ASCII (as the spec does) doesn't need a character encoding declaration.