W3C Validator gives error. (html very simple code)

Harry Cho

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W3C Validator gives error. (html very simple code)

Mar 17 '11, 06:12 AM

Hello
Following code gives me error when I try to validate it from validator.w3.or g. I copied this code from book and image file is in the same folder as html file. Help me out.

Code:

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns = "http://www.w2.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Images</title> </head> <body> <p> <img src = "Desert.jpg" width = "1024" height = "768" alt = "The Desert" /> </p> </body> </html>

1. Error Line 17, Column 8: entity end not allowed in processing instruction

</html>

2. Error Line 17, Column 8: end of document in prolog

</html>

This error may appear when the validator receives an empty document. Please make sure that the document you are uploading is not empty, and report any discrepancy.
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drhowarddrfine

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Mar 17 '11, 01:09 PM

You are missing the closing '?' of your xml declaration. Should be:

Code:

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"?>

Do not use this! Unless you are serving as XHTML, only modern browsers know what to do with that line while most versions of IE just go into quirks mode. You should leave that line out.
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