xhtml validation error

Patrick Kik · Sep 3, 2004

Hi,

This is the code:
---------- begin xhtml ----------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/stylesheet.css" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
---------- end xhtml ----------

And this is the error when I validate with
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_validate.asp:
---------- begin error ----------
Line 7, column 6: end tag for "head" which is not finished

</head>

Most likely, You nested tags and closed them in the wrong order. For example
... is not acceptable, as must be closed before .
Acceptable nesting is: ...

Another possibility is that you used an element (e.g. 'ul') which requires a
child element (e.g. 'li') that you did not include. Hence the parent element
is "not finished", not complete.

---------- end error ----------

I don't get it. What did I do wrong?

I hope someone can help me!

Greetings,

Patrick Kik, The Netherlands

m · Sep 3, 2004

Patrick said:
Hi,

This is the code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

What goes before the 'i' in 'iso' and after the 'l' in 'html'?

Neal · Sep 3, 2004

Hi,

This is the code:
---------- begin xhtml ----------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/stylesheet.css" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Another possibility is that you used an element (e.g. 'ul') which
requires a
child element (e.g. 'li') that you did not include. Hence the parent
element
is "not finished", not complete.

That's the one. title is a required element.

Neal · Sep 3, 2004

What goes before the 'i' in 'iso' and after the 'l' in 'html'?

Er, nothing. It's a HTTP "equiv", the whole HTTP line would be:

text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

So why add characters to the HTTP header??

m · Sep 3, 2004

Neal said:
Er, nothing. It's a HTTP "equiv", the whole HTTP line would be:

text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

So why add characters to the HTTP header??

Silly me.

Dylan Parry · Sep 3, 2004

Spake m unto thee:

What goes before the 'i' in 'iso' and after the 'l' in 'html'?

If you are implying that they are missing quotes, then you are incorrect.
The 'content' attribute has the value of 'text/html; charset=iso-8859-1',
they are not two separate attributes.

For the correct answer see my other post.

Dylan Parry · Sep 3, 2004

Spake Patrick Kik unto thee:

Line 7, column 6: end tag for "head" which is not finished

You have missed the <title> element from the head.

Toby Inkster · Sep 4, 2004

Patrick said:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

As well as the missing <title> element, it is extremely unlikely that your
doctype is correct.

Unless you have a directory called "DTD" containing a file
"xhtml1-strict.dtd" you should use an absolute reference to the URL.

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