Re[2]: [Zope] w3c validation and <base .../> tag

[Charlie Reiman]

That is true. Why would <base .. /> be bad and <img .. /> be ok?

I smell something fishy with the validator. Maybe it is time to whine to the
validator maintainers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulrich Wisser [mailto:liste@publisher.de]
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 11:38 AM
> To: zope-admin@zope.org; Charlie Reiman
> Cc: Dan Jacobs; Martijn Pieters; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re[2]: [Zope] w3c validation and <base .../> tag
>
>
> Hello,
>
> > Perhaps another option would be to make zope have an option to
> spit out the
> > ' /' or not rather than requiring source code changes. Alas,
> this would also
> > affect other products. Image, for example, also spits out ' />'.
>
> yes, but for the image tag the w3c validator does not
> complain. I don't even get a warning for that it is ignored.
> Whereas the <base .../> tag is tagged as error. STRANGE!?!
>
> Ulrich
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