FW: gOE and gOET validation problem solved

["Galt, Stuart A" <stuart.a.galt@boeing.com>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Galt, Stuart A 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:45 AM
> To: WebCGM WG
> Subject: gOE and gOET validation problem solved
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have played around with the validator a bit more and have 
> come to a few conclusions.
> 
> addin the line <?xml.... at the top of the file turns it from 
> html transitional into xhtml.  I think that we have not made 
> the jump to xhtml so this line should be removed.  I actually 
> started reading http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset
> a bit more closely and discovered that the way I was doing it 
> with the xml declaration at the top has problems see:
> http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/#declaration
> 
> So the correct solution is to not have a xml declaration (it isn't
> xml....) and to have a meta tag that looks like:
> 
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 
> content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" >  or <meta 
> http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
> 
> The reason it didn't work with my original meta tag was 
> because I didn't have the http-equiv="Content-Type" attribute 
> included.  Once I added the attribute and deleted the xml 
> declaration the file validated
> - when I used "by file upload" in internet exploder
> - when I used "by file upload" in firefox
> - when I used "by direct input" in firefox
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> --
> Stuart Galt
> SGML Resource Group
> stuart.a.galt@boeing.com
> (206) 544-3656
> 
> 
>