[Sussex] Strange error when checking html with W3C validate

[Ronan Chilvers]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:54:45 +0100
"Gareth Ablett" <Gareth.Ablett at itpserve.co.uk> wrote:

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> 
> I may be wrong on certain parts here but this is what I do;
> The DOCTYPE is always the first line so swap the xml and the DOCTYPE
> around, also I hope those excessive *'s are part of the validators
> display.

To be valid XHTML, the xml declaration needs to come first as far as
I know.

> 
> I gather you use the validator in the way to upload the file your best
> bet is to upload the file to some webspace and use the link to
> validate the page that way regardless of the browser it should get
> the same result.

Good plan - would be a good way of pinning it down to a browser issue
rather than the code itself.

Ronan
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