errors on http://www.wandleff.co.uk/

[Andrew Wandless]

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Hi there

 

I'm having some trouble understanding these errors on my index page. I've checked examples that you offer but they seem to be the same. I haven't validated the entire site yet just the index.

 

 

Best regards to you all

 

Andy

 

 

Line 2, Column 6: "html" is not a member of a group specified for any attribute

     PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

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Line 2, Column 13: an attribute value literal can occur in an attribute specification list only after a VI delimiter

     PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

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Have you forgotten the "equal" sign marking the separation between the attribute and its declared value? Typical syntax is attribute="value".

Line 2, Column 13: element "DOCTYPE" undefined

     PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

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You have used the element named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not define an element of that name. This error is often caused by:

• incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Frameset" document type to get the "<frameset>" element),
• by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "<spacer>" or "<marquee>" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).
• by using upper-case tags in XHTML (in XHTML attributes and elements must be all lower-case).

Line 6, Column 16: an attribute value literal can occur in an attribute specification list only after a VI delimiter

       xml:lang"en" lang="en">

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Have you forgotten the "equal" sign marking the separation between the attribute and its declared value? Typical syntax is attribute="value".

Line 6, Column 17: character data is not allowed here

       xml:lang"en" lang="en">

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You have used character data somewhere it is not permitted to appear. Mistakes that can cause this error include:

• putting text directly in the body of the document without wrapping it in a container element (such as a <p>aragraph</p>), or
• forgetting to quote an attribute value (where characters such as "%" and "/" are common, but cannot appear without surrounding quotes), or
• using XHTML-style self-closing tags (such as <meta ... />) in HTML 4.01 or earlier. To fix, remove the extra slash ('/') character. For more information about the reasons for this, see Empty elements in SGML, HTML, XML, and XHTML.

Line 158, Column 8: end tag for "DOCTYPE" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

</ht…

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You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

Line 1, Column 121: start tag was here

…/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><DOCTYPE html

Line 158, Column 8: no document element

</ht…

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Line 2, Column 5: XML Parsing Error: Specification mandate value for attribute html

     PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

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Line 2, Column 5: XML Parsing Error: attributes construct error

     PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

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Line 2, Column 5: XML Parsing Error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag DOCTYPE line 1

     PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

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Line 2, Column 5: XML Parsing Error: Extra content at the end of the document

     PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

 

 

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Andrew Wandless <andywandless@...> writes:
> Error Line 2, Column 6: "html" is not a member of a group specified for any attribute              
>                                                                                                    
>      PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"                                                

% fetch -qo- http://www.wandleff.co.uk/ | head -4
<DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-
transitional.dtd">

That's not a valid doctype declaration.  A valid doctype declaration
looks like this:

% fetch -qo- http://www.des.no/ | head -3
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN'
 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'>

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@...

[David Dorward-3]

On 29 Oct 2009, at 12:43, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> That's not a valid doctype declaration.  A valid doctype declaration
> looks like this:
>
> % fetch -qo- http://www.des.no/ | head -3
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN'
> 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'>

… but without the XML declaration, which is pointless when using the  
default encoding, and pushes Internet Explorer 6 into Quirks mode.

--
David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

David Dorward <david@...> writes:
> ...but without the XML declaration, which is pointless when using the
> default encoding, and pushes Internet Explorer 6 into Quirks mode.

That is the *least* of IE6's problems...

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@...