What does this mean?

12-19-2007

Line 4, Column 0: character "<" invalid: only delimiter ">", delimiter
"[", system identifier, "CDATA", "NDATA", "SDATA" and parameter
separators allowed.

<html>

1:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
2:
3:
4:<html>

12-19-2007

..oO(richard)

>Line 4, Column 0: character "<" invalid: only delimiter ">", delimiter
>"[", system identifier, "CDATA", "NDATA", "SDATA" and parameter
>separators allowed.
>
><html>
>
>1:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>2:
>3:
>4:<html>

The document type declaration is not closed (missing '>' at the end of
line 1). There should also be URL or browsers will be thrown into quirks
mode.

Micha

12-19-2007

"richard" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Line 4, Column 0: character "<" invalid: only delimiter ">", delimiter
> "[", system identifier, "CDATA", "NDATA", "SDATA" and parameter
> separators allowed.

Hmmm. Tricky. I'd say you are missing a delimeter ">", a delimeter "[", a
system identifier, some "CDATA", "NDATA", "SDATA" or a parameter separator.

> <html>
>
> 1:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

Yep, you are missing a ">".

Not so tricky after all

> 2:
> 3:
> 4:<html>

--
Richard.

12-19-2007

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:54:43 +0100, Michael Fesser <>
wrote:

>.oO(richard)
>
>>Line 4, Column 0: character "<" invalid: only delimiter ">", delimiter
>>"[", system identifier, "CDATA", "NDATA", "SDATA" and parameter
>>separators allowed.
>>
>><html>
>>
>>1:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>>2:
>>3:
>>4:<html>
>
>The document type declaration is not closed (missing '>' at the end of
>line 1). There should also be URL or browsers will be thrown into quirks
>mode.
>
>Micha

A case of couldn't see the forest through the trees.
Thanks.
At least it validates now.

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