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1 wakaba 1.1 <!DOCTYPE html><html id="error-description" lang="en" xmlns:d="http://suika.fam.cx/~wakaba/archive/2007/wdcc-desc/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
2     <head>
3 wakaba 1.31 <base href="cc/">
4 wakaba 1.32
5    
6 wakaba 1.31 <link href="../cc-style" rel="stylesheet">
7 wakaba 1.1 <link href="#license" rel="license">
8 wakaba 1.32 <title xml:lang="en">Description of Errors — WebHACC (β)</title></head>
9 wakaba 1.1 <body>
10 wakaba 1.31 <header>
11     <h1><a href="../cc-about"><abbr title="Web Hypertext Application Conformance Checker (β)"><img alt="WebHACC" src="../icons/title"></abbr></a></h1>
12     <h2>Description of Errors</h2>
13     </header>
14    
15    
16    
17     <div class="section" id="WebHACC:Heading"><h3>
18    
19     </h3>
20     <p><a href="./#input"><abbr title="Web Hypertext Application Conformance Checker">WebHACC</abbr></a>
21     is a <em>conformance checker</em> (or validator) for Web documents,
22     supporting <a href="../standards">latest Web standards</a> including
23     <a href="http://whatwg.org/html5"><abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr>5</a>,
24     <a href="urn:ietf:rfc:4287">Atom 1.0</a>,
25     <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work"><abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>3</a>.</p>
26    
27     <p><strong><a href="./#input">Check your document</a></strong>, or
28     <a href="../cc-about">learn more about
29     <abbr title="Web Hypertext Application Conformance Checker">WebHACC</abbr></a>.</p>
30     </div>
31 wakaba 1.1
32 wakaba 1.20 <section id="character-encoding-layer">
33     <h2>Character Encoding Layer Errors</h2>
34    
35 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="illegal-octets-error"><h3>An illegal octet in the input stream.</h3></div>
36 wakaba 1.20 </section>
37    
38 wakaba 1.15 <section id="html5-character-encoding">
39     <h2>HTML5 Character Encoding Errors</h2>
40    
41 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="disallowed-character-encoding"><h3>Character encoding <code><var>{text}</var></code>
42 wakaba 1.15 is not allowed for <abbr>HTML</abbr> document.</h3>
43     <p>The character encoding used for the document is not allowed
44     for <abbr>HTML</abbr> document. The document is non‐conforming.</p>
45     </div>
46    
47 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bad-character-encoding"><h3>Character encoding <code><var>{text}</var></code>
48 wakaba 1.15 should not be used for <abbr>HTML</abbr> document.</h3>
49     <p>The character encoding used for the document is not recommended
50     for <abbr>HTML</abbr> document. The document is non‐conforming
51     unless there is any good reason to use that encoding.</p>
52     </div>
53    
54 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="non-utf-8-character-encoding"><h3>Use of UTF-8 is encouraged (this document
55 wakaba 1.26 is encoded in <code><var>{text}</var></code>).</h3>
56 wakaba 1.15 <p>Use of UTF-8 as the character encoding of the document is encouraged,
57 wakaba 1.20 though the use of another character encoding is still conforming.</p>
58 wakaba 1.15 </div>
59    
60 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="character-encoding-unchecked"><h3>Conformance for character encoding requirements
61 wakaba 1.26 cannot be checked, since the input is not a byte stream.</h3>
62 wakaba 1.16 <p>The conformance checker cannot detect whether the input document
63     met the requirements on character encoding, since the document
64     is not inputed as a serialized byte sequence. The document is
65     not conforming if it is not encoded in an appropriate character
66     encoding with appropriate labeling.</p>
67     </div>
68    
69 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-character-encoding-declaration"><h3>There is no character encoding
70 wakaba 1.15 declaration.</h3>
71     <p>The document does not contain a character encoding
72     declaration. Unless the character encoding is explicitly
73 wakaba 1.16 specified in lower‐level protocol, e.g. in <abbr>HTTP</abbr>,
74 wakaba 1.15 or is implied by <abbr>BOM</abbr>, there must be a character
75     encoding declaration. The document is non‐conforming.</p>
76    
77     <p>The long character encoding declaration syntax
78 wakaba 1.21 <code class="html bad example">&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<var>charset-name</var>"&gt;</code>
79 wakaba 1.15 is obsolete. The new syntax is:</p>
80     <pre class="html example">
81 wakaba 1.21 <code>&lt;meta charset="<var>charset-name</var>"&gt;</code></pre>
82 wakaba 1.15
83     <p>Note that the <code>encoding</code> declaration in <abbr>XML</abbr>
84     declaration has no effect for <abbr>HTML</abbr> document.</p>
85     </div>
86    
87 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="non-ascii-superset"><h3>No character encoding metadata is found
88 wakaba 1.16 in lower‐level protocol nor is there <abbr>BOM</abbr>, while
89 wakaba 1.26 character encoding <code><var>{text}</var></code>
90 wakaba 1.15 is not a superset of <abbr>ASCII</abbr>.</h3>
91     <p>The document is not labeled with character encoding name
92 wakaba 1.16 in lower‐level protocol, e.g. in <abbr>HTTP</abbr>, and
93 wakaba 1.15 the document is not begin with <abbr>BOM</abbr>. In addition,
94     the character encoding of the document is not a superset of
95     <abbr>ASCII</abbr>. The document is non‐conforming.</p>
96    
97     <p>Unless there is a <abbr>BOM</abbr>, the character encoding
98     for the document must be specified in e.g. <abbr>HTTP</abbr>‐level,
99     as:</p>
100     <pre class="http example">
101     <code>Content-Type: text/html; charset=<var>charset-name</var></code></pre>
102    
103     <p>Existence of <abbr>HTML</abbr> character encoding declaration, i.e.
104 wakaba 1.21 <code class="html example">&lt;meta charset="<var>charset-name</var>"&gt;</code>,
105 wakaba 1.15 does not allow to omit <code>charset</code> parameter
106     for <abbr>HTML</abbr> document encoded in non‐<abbr>ASCII</abbr>
107     compatible encoding.</p>
108    
109     <p>Character encodings <code>Shift_JIS</code>, <code>Windows-31J</code>,
110     and <code>ISO-2022-JP</code> are <em>not</em> a superset of
111     <abbr>ASCII</abbr> for the purpose of <abbr>HTML</abbr> conformance.</p>
112     </div>
113    
114 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="sniffing:chardet"><h3>Character encoding of this document is sniffed
115 wakaba 1.25 as <code><var>{text}</var></code> (Sniffed because no explicit specification
116     for the character encoding of this document is found in the transfer
117     procotol headers).</h3></div>
118    
119 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="sniffing:default"><h3>Character encoding of this document is defaulted
120 wakaba 1.25 to <code><var>{text}</var></code> because no explicit specification
121     for the character encoding of this document is found in the transfer
122     procotol headers.</h3></div>
123    
124 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="chardecode:fallback"><h3>Since no decoder for the document character
125 wakaba 1.25 encoding is found, decoder for the character encoding
126     <code><var>{text}</var></code> is used. Checking results might be
127     <em>wrong</em>.</h3></div>
128    
129 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="chardecode:no-error"><h3>Conformance error checking for the character
130 wakaba 1.25 encoding <code><var>{text}</var></code> is not supported.</h3></div>
131    
132 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="charset-label:matching"><h3>Sniffed character encoding
133 wakaba 1.25 <code><var>{text}</var></code> is same as the character encoding specified
134     in the character encoding declaration. This is <em>not</em> an
135     error.</h3></div>
136    
137 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="charset-label-detected"><h3>While parsing the document as
138 wakaba 1.25 <code><var>{text}</var></code>, a character encoding declaration specifying
139     a different character encoding is found. The document
140 wakaba 1.15 is reparsed.</h3>
141     <p>While parsing a document in a character encoding,
142     a character encoding declaration which declares the character
143     encoding of the document as another character encoding is found.
144     The occurence of this warning itself does not make the document
145     non‐conforming. However, the failure of the first attempt to
146 wakaba 1.20 to detect the character encoding might be a result of non‐conformance
147 wakaba 1.15 of the document.</p>
148    
149     <p>The document will be reparsed from the beginning. Some error
150     or warning might be reported again.</p>
151    
152     <p>These are suggestions to avoid this warning:</p>
153     <ul>
154     <li>Specify <code>charset</code> parameter in the <code>Content-Type</code>
155     field in the <abbr>HTTP</abbr> header, as:
156     <pre class="HTTP example">
157 wakaba 1.21 <code>Content-Type: text/html; charset="<var>charset-name</var>"</code></pre></li>
158 wakaba 1.15 <li>Put the character encoding declaration
159 wakaba 1.21 (<code class="html example">&lt;meta charset="<var>charset-name</var>"&gt;</code>)
160 wakaba 1.15 just after <code class="html example">&lt;head&gt;</code> start tag.</li>
161     <li>Use <code>UTF-8</code>.</li>
162     </ul>
163     </div>
164 wakaba 1.25
165 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="NULL"><h3>The <code class="charname">NULL</code> character
166 wakaba 1.25 is not allowed.</h3></div>
167    
168 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="control-char"><h3>Code point <code><var>{text}</var></code> is
169 wakaba 1.25 not allowed.</h3></div>
170    
171 wakaba 1.15 </section>
172    
173 wakaba 1.2 <section id="html5-tokenize-error">
174     <h2>HTML5 Parse Errors in Tokenization Stage</h2>
175 wakaba 1.1
176 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bad-attribute-name"><h3>Attribute name cannot contain characters
177 wakaba 1.25 <code>"</code>, <code>'</code>, and <code>=</code>.</h3></div>
178    
179 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bad-attribute-value"><h3>Attribute value must be quoted by <code>"</code>
180 wakaba 1.25 or <code>'</code> if it contains a <code>"</code>, <code>'</code>, or
181 wakaba 1.35 <code>=</code> character.</h3>
182     <p>In an unquoted attribute value, a character <code>"</code>
183     (<code>U+0022</code> <code class="charname">QUOTATION MARK</code>),
184     <code>'</code> (<code>U+0026</code>
185     <code class="charname">APOSTROPHE</code>), or <code>=</code>
186     (<code>U+003D</code> <code class="charname">EQUAL SIGN</code>)
187     is contained. These characters are not allowed in unquoted attribute
188     values, since they are used to quote attribute values or to separate
189     attribute name and value.</p>
190    
191     <p>This error is also raised if one try to use empty attribute
192     value like <code class="html bad example">&lt;foo bar= baz=&gt;</code>;
193     in this example, <code class="html bad example">baz=</code> is
194     treated as an invalid attribute value for the attribute
195     <code class="html bad example">bar</code>, not as another attribute.</p>
196     </div>
197 wakaba 1.25
198 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bare-ero"><h3>The <code>&amp;</code> character must
199 wakaba 1.20 be escaped as <code class="html example">&amp;amp;</code>.</h3>
200 wakaba 1.14 <p>An <code>&amp;</code> character which
201 wakaba 1.3 is not part of any reference appears in the input stream.
202 wakaba 1.14 The document is non‐conforming.</p>
203 wakaba 1.3
204 wakaba 1.14 <p><em>Any <code>&amp;</code> character in URI (or IRI)
205     must be escaped as <code class="example">&amp;amp;</code>.</em></p>
206 wakaba 1.9
207 wakaba 1.3 <p>The <code>&amp;</code> character must
208     be the first character of a reference:
209 wakaba 1.14 <dl class="switch">
210 wakaba 1.3 <dt>Named entity reference</dt>
211     <dd><pre class="html example">
212     <code>&amp;<var>entity-name</var>;</code></pre>
213     where <var>entity-name</var> is the name of the
214     character entity to be referenced.</dd>
215     <dt>Numeric character reference</dt>
216     <dd><pre class="html example">
217     <code>&amp;#<var>d</var>;</code></pre>
218     where <var>d</var> is the decimal representation of
219     the code position of the character to be referenced.</dd>
220     <dt>Hexadecimal character reference</dt>
221     <dd><pre class="html example">
222     <code>&amp;#x<var>h</var>;</code></pre>
223     where <var>h</var> is the hexadecimal representation
224     of the code position of the character to be referenced.</dd>
225     </dl>
226     </p>
227    
228     <p>To represent <code>&amp;</code> as a data character, use
229     named entity reference:
230     <pre class="html example">
231     <code>&amp;amp;</code></pre>
232     </p>
233     </div>
234    
235 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bare-etago"><h3>A <code>&lt;/</code> string is not followed
236 wakaba 1.7 by a tag name.</h3>
237     <p>There is a <code>&lt;</code> (<code>U+003C</code>
238     <code class="charname">LESS-THAN SIGN</code>) character
239     immediately followed by a <code>/</code> (<code>U+005F</code>
240     <code>SOLIDUS</code>) character, which is not part
241     of any end tag, in the input stream. The document
242     is non-conforming.</p>
243    
244     <p>The <code>&lt;/</code> sequence immediately followed
245     by an <abbr title="End of file pseudo-character">EOF</abbr> is
246     interpreted as a string data of <code>&lt;/</code>.</p>
247    
248     <p>The <code>&lt;/</code> sequence as string data must
249     be escaped as:
250     <pre class="html example">
251     <code>&amp;lt;/</code></pre>
252     </p>
253     </div>
254    
255 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bare-stago"><h3>A <code>&lt;</code> character is not followed
256 wakaba 1.4 by tag name or by a <code>!</code> character.</h3>
257 wakaba 1.6 <p>A <code>&lt;</code> (<code>U+003C</code>
258     <code class="charname">LESS-THAN SIGN</code>) character which is not part
259     of any markup appears in the input stream.</p>
260 wakaba 1.4
261     <p>The <code>&lt;</code> character as a data character must
262     be escaped as:
263     <pre class="html example">
264 wakaba 1.6 <code>&amp;lt;</code></pre>
265 wakaba 1.4 </p>
266     </div>
267    
268 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bare-nero"><h3>The decimal representation of the code position
269 wakaba 1.3 of a character must be specified after <code>&amp;#</code>.</h3>
270     <p>An <code>&amp;</code> (<code>U+0026</code>
271     <code class="charname">AMPERSAND</code>) character immediately
272     followed by a <code>#</code> (<code>U+0023</code>
273     <code>NUMBER SIGN</code>) character which
274     is not part of any reference appears in the input stream.
275     The document is non-conforming.</p>
276    
277     <p>The string <code>&amp;#</code> must be the first two characters
278     of a reference:
279 wakaba 1.14 <dl class="switch">
280 wakaba 1.3 <dt>Numeric character reference</dt>
281     <dd><pre class="html example">
282     <code>&amp;#<var>d</var>;</code></pre>
283     where <var>d</var> is the decimal representation of
284     the code point of the character to be referenced.</dd>
285     <dt>Hexadecimal character reference</dt>
286     <dd><pre class="html example">
287     <code>&amp;#x<var>h</var>;</code></pre>
288     where <var>h</var> is the hexadecimal representation
289     of the code point of the character to be referenced.</dd>
290     </dl>
291     </p>
292    
293     <p>To represent <code>&amp;#</code> as data characters, use
294 wakaba 1.6 a named entity reference for the <code>&amp;</code> character:
295 wakaba 1.3 <pre class="html example">
296     <code>&amp;amp;#</code></pre>
297     </p>
298     </div>
299    
300 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bare-hcro"><h3>The hexadecimal representation of the code position
301 wakaba 1.3 of a character must be specified after <code>&amp;#x</code>.</h3>
302     <p>The string <code>&amp;#x</code> or <code>&amp;#X</code> which
303     is not part of any reference appears in the input stream.
304     The document is non-conforming.</p>
305    
306     <p>The string <code>&amp;#x</code> or <code>&amp;#X</code> must
307     be the first three characters of a hexadecimal reference:
308     <pre class="html example">
309     <code>&amp;#x<var>h</var>;</code></pre>
310     where <var>h</var> is the hexadecimal representation
311     of the code point of the character to be referenced.</p>
312    
313     <p>To represent <code>&amp;#x</code> as data characters, use
314 wakaba 1.6 a named entity reference for the <code>&amp;</code> character:
315 wakaba 1.3 <pre class="html example">
316     <code>&amp;amp;#x</code></pre>
317     </p>
318     </div>
319    
320 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bogus-comment"><h3>String <code>&lt;!</code> is not followed
321 wakaba 1.9 by <code>--</code>.</h3>
322     <p>There is a <code>&lt;</code> (<code>U+003C</code>
323     <code class="charname">LESS-THAN SIGN</code>) character
324     followed by a <code>!</code> (<code>U+0021</code>
325     <code class="charname">EXCLAMATION MARK</code>) character,
326     which is not followed by a <code>--</code> or
327     <code>!DOCTYPE</code>. The document is non-conforming.</p>
328    
329     <dl class="switch">
330     <dt>Comments</dt>
331 wakaba 1.14 <dd>In HTML document, comments must be introduced by
332     <code class="example">&lt;!--</code> (<code>&lt;!</code>
333     <em>immediately</em> followed
334 wakaba 1.9 by <em>two</em> <code>-</code>s) and must be terminated by
335 wakaba 1.14 <code class="example">--&gt;</code>.
336     Strings <code>&lt;!</code> not followed
337 wakaba 1.9 by <code>--</code> and <code>&lt;!-</code> not followed by
338     <code>-</code> are not valid open delimiters for comments.</dd>
339     <dt>Marked sections, including <code>CDATA</code> sections</dt>
340 wakaba 1.14 <dd>Marked sections are not allowed in HTML document.</dd>
341 wakaba 1.9 <dt>Markup declarations</dt>
342 wakaba 1.14 <dd>Markup declarations, except for <code>DOCTYPE</code>
343     and comment declarations, are not allowed in HTML document.</dd>
344 wakaba 1.9 <dt>String <code>&lt;!</code></dt>
345     <dd>String <code>&lt;!</code> must be escaped as
346 wakaba 1.14 <code class="example">&amp;lt;!</code>.</dd>
347 wakaba 1.9 </dl>
348     </div>
349    
350 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bogus-end-tag"><h3>String <code>&lt;/</code> is not followed
351 wakaba 1.9 by tag name.</h3>
352 wakaba 1.7 <p>There is a <code>&lt;</code> (<code>U+003C</code>
353     <code class="charname">LESS-THAN SIGN</code>) character
354     immediately followed by a <code>/</code> (<code>U+005F</code>
355     <code>SOLIDUS</code>) character, which is not part
356     of any end tag, in the input stream. The document
357     is non-conforming.</p>
358    
359     <p>The <code>&lt;/</code> sequence not followed by a
360     tag name is parsed as an opening of bogus comment.</p>
361    
362     <p>The <code>&lt;/</code> sequence as string data must
363     be escaped as:
364     <pre class="html example">
365     <code>&amp;lt;/</code></pre>
366     </p>
367     </div>
368    
369 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="C1-character-reference"><h3>Character reference to
370 wakaba 1.25 <code><var>{text}</var></code> is not allowed.</h3></div>
371    
372 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="CR-character-reference"><h3>Character reference to
373 wakaba 1.25 <code>U+000D</code> (<code class="charname">CARRIAGE RETURN</code>)
374     is not allowed.</h3></div>
375    
376 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="dash-in-comment"><h3>There is a <code>--</code> sequence
377 wakaba 1.4 in a comment.</h3>
378     <p>There is a <code>-</code> (<code>U+002D</code>
379     <code class="charname">HYPHEN-MINUS</code>) character
380     at the end of the comment or a <code>--</code> sequence
381     in the comment. The document is non-conforming.</p>
382    
383     <p>Comments cannot contain a string <code>--</code>, as in XML.
384     Unlike SGML, there cannot be more than one comments
385     (where <i>comment</i> is an SGML term) in the comment
386     declaration.</p>
387     </div>
388    
389 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="duplicate-attribute"><h3>There are two attributes with name
390 wakaba 1.25 <code><var>{text}</var></code>.</h3>
391 wakaba 1.3 <p>There are more than one attributes with the same
392     name in a tag. The document is non-conforming.</p>
393 wakaba 1.1
394     <p>The <code>motion</code> attribute is not part of the HTML standard.
395     Use <code>img</code> element with animation GIF instead.</p>
396     </div>
397    
398 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="empty-start-tag"><h3>Empty start tag (<code>&lt;&gt;</code>) is not
399 wakaba 1.25 allowed.</h3></div>
400    
401 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="empty-end-tag"><h3>Empty end tag (<code>&lt;/&gt;</code>) is not
402 wakaba 1.25 allowed.</h3></div>
403    
404 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="end-tag-attribute"><h3>End tag cannot have attributes.</h3></div>
405 wakaba 1.25
406 wakaba 1.35 <div class="section" id="empty-unquoted-attribute-value"><h3>Attribute value is not specified.</h3>
407     <p>The attribute value is not specified after the <code>=</code>
408     (<code>U+003C</code> <code class="charname">EQUAL SIGN</code>)
409     character.</p>
410    
411     <p>When an attribute value is empty, the <code>=</code> character after
412     the attribute name must be specified as:</p>
413    
414     <p><code class="html example">&lt;foo bar&gt;</code></p>
415    
416     <p>Instead, quotation marks can be used to explicitly represent that
417     the attribute value is empty, as:</p>
418    
419     <p><code class="html example">&lt;foo bar=""&gt;</code></p>
420    
421     <p>... or like:</p>
422    
423     <p><code class="html example">&lt;foo bar=''&gt;</code></p>
424     </div>
425    
426 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="invalid-character-reference"><h3>Character reference to
427 wakaba 1.25 <code><var>{text}</var></code> is not allowed.</h3></div>
428    
429 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="nestc"><h3>Polytheistic slash (<code>/&gt;</code>) cannot be
430 wakaba 1.1 used for this element.</h3>
431 wakaba 1.10 <p>Polytheistic slash (<code>/&gt;</code>) must not be used
432 wakaba 1.3 for the element. The document is non-conforming.</p>
433    
434 wakaba 1.10 <p>The polytheistic slash can only be
435 wakaba 1.1 used for <code>base</code>, <code>link</code>, <code>meta</code>,
436     <code>hr</code>, <code>br</code>, <code>img</code>,
437     <code>embed</code>, <code>param</code>, <code>area</code>,
438 wakaba 1.3 <code>col</code>, and <code>input</code> elements.</p>
439 wakaba 1.1
440 wakaba 1.11 <dl class="switch">
441 wakaba 1.9 <dt><code>&lt;script/&gt;</code></dt>
442 wakaba 1.10 <dd><p>The polytheistic slash cannot be used for <code>script</code>
443 wakaba 1.9 element. Even for an empty <code>script</code> element,
444 wakaba 1.14 there must be an explicit end tag
445     <code class="html example">&lt;/script&gt;</code>.</p>
446 wakaba 1.9
447     <p><strong>NOTE</strong>: Though some user agents interpret
448 wakaba 1.10 polytheistic slash for <code>script</code> element as the
449 wakaba 1.9 closing of the element, such usage is not allowed under
450     the current standard.</p></dd>
451     <dt><code>&lt;basefont/&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;bgsound/&gt;</code>,
452     <code>&lt;frame/&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;keygen/&gt;</code>,
453     <code>&lt;spacer/&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;wbr/&gt;</code></dt>
454     <dd>These elements are themselves non-conforming.</dd>
455     <!-- isindex, image -->
456     <dt><code>&lt;command/&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;event-source/&gt;</code>,
457 wakaba 1.11 <code>&lt;nest/&gt;</code>, or <code>&lt;source/&gt;</code></dt>
458 wakaba 1.9 <dd>Future revision of HTML5 parsing algorithm is expected
459 wakaba 1.10 to allow polytheistic slash for these elements.</dd>
460 wakaba 1.9 <dt><code>&lt;a/&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;p/&gt;</code></dt>
461     <dd>These elements are not always empty and therefore
462 wakaba 1.14 polytheistic slash is not allowed. Use explicit end tag
463     to represent empty element as:
464     <pre class="example html">
465     <code>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</code></pre>
466     </dd>
467 wakaba 1.9 </dl>
468    
469 wakaba 1.10 <p>Note that, unlike in XML, the polytheistic slash has
470 wakaba 1.1 no effect in HTML.</p>
471     </div>
472    
473 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-DOCTYPE-name"><h3>After the string <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE </code>, the
474 wakaba 1.25 document type name must be specified.</h3></div>
475    
476 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-PUBLIC-literal"><h3>After the keyword <code>PUBLIC</code>, no
477 wakaba 1.25 oublic identifier is specified.</h3></div>
478    
479 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-refc"><h3>Character reference must be closed by a
480 wakaba 1.25 <code>;</code> character.</h3></div>
481    
482 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-space-before-DOCTYPE-name"><h3>After the string <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE</code>, there
483 wakaba 1.25 must be at least a white space character before the document type
484     name.</h3></div>
485    
486 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-space-between-attributes"><h3>Attributes must be separeted by at least a
487 wakaba 1.25 white space character.</h3></div>
488    
489 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-SYSTEM-literal"><h3>After the keyword <code>SYSTEM</code>, no
490 wakaba 1.25 system identifier is specified.</h3></div>
491 wakaba 1.5
492 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="pio"><h3>Processing instruction
493 wakaba 1.25 (<code>&lt;?<var>...</var>&gt;</code>) is not allowed in HTML
494     document.</h3>
495 wakaba 1.5 <p>Processing instructions (<code>&lt;?<var>...</var>?&gt;</code>),
496     including XML declaration (<code>&lt;?xml <var>...</var>?&gt;</code>)
497     and XML style sheet <abbr title="processing instruction">PI</abbr>
498 wakaba 1.9 (<code>&lt;?xml-stylesheet <var>...</var>?&gt;</code>), are not allowed
499 wakaba 1.5 in the HTML syntax. The document is non-conforming.</p>
500    
501 wakaba 1.11 <dl class="switch">
502     <dt><code>&lt;?xbl?&gt;</code> (<abbr>XBL</abbr> Association)</dt>
503     <dd>An <abbr>XBL</abbr> binding cannot be associated by
504     <abbr title="processing instruction">PI</abbr> in <abbr>HTML</abbr>
505     document. Use <code>binding</code> property in <abbr>CSS</abbr>
506 wakaba 1.14 style sheet as:
507     <pre class="html example">
508     <code>&lt;style&gt;
509     p {
510     binding: url(binding.xbl);
511     }
512     &lt;/style&gt;</code></pre>
513     </dd>
514 wakaba 1.9 <dt><code>&lt;?xml?&gt;</code> (XML declaration)</dt>
515     <dd>XML declaration is unnecessary for HTML documents.</dd>
516     <dt><code>&lt;?xml-stylesheet?&gt;</code> (XML style sheet
517 wakaba 1.11 <abbr title="processing instruction">PI</abbr>)</dt>
518 wakaba 1.9 <dd>Use HTML <code>link</code> element with <code>rel</code>
519     attribute set to <code>stylesheet</code> (or,
520     <code>alternate stylesheet</code> for an alternate style
521 wakaba 1.14 sheet).
522     <pre class="example html">
523 wakaba 1.21 <code>&lt;link rel=stylesheet href="path/to/stylesheet.css"&gt;</code></pre>
524 wakaba 1.14 </dd>
525 wakaba 1.11 <dt><code>&lt;?php?&gt;</code> or
526     <code>&lt;? <var>... <abbr>PHP</abbr> code ...</var> ?&gt;</code>
527     (<abbr>PHP</abbr> code)</dt>
528 wakaba 1.9 <dd>The conformance checker does <em>not</em> support
529     checking for PHP source documents.</dd>
530     <dt>Other processing instructions</dt>
531     <dd>Processing instructions cannot be inserted in an HTML
532     document. Use XML document or insert
533     <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> node by scripting.</dd>
534     </dl>
535 wakaba 1.5
536     <p>Web browsers will parse processing instructions as bogus
537     comments. Some legacy Web browsers, such as IE:mac and
538 wakaba 1.9 some mobile Web browsers, will display processing instructions
539 wakaba 1.5 as string.</p>
540     </div>
541    
542 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="string-after-DOCTYPE-name"><h3>There is a bogus string after the document type
543 wakaba 1.25 name.</h3></div>
544    
545 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="string-after-PUBLIC"><h3>There is a bogus string after the keyword
546 wakaba 1.25 <code>PUBLIC</code>.</h3></div>
547    
548 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="string-after-PUBLIC-literal"><h3>There is a bogus string after the public
549 wakaba 1.25 identifier.</h3></div>
550    
551 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="string-after-SYSTEM"><h3>There is a bogus string after the keyword
552 wakaba 1.25 <code>SYSTEM</code>.</h3></div>
553    
554 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="string-after-SYSTEM-literal"><h3>There is a bogus string after the system
555 wakaba 1.25 identifier.</h3></div>
556    
557 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unclosed-attribute-value"><h3>Attribute value is not closed by a quotation
558 wakaba 1.25 mark.</h3></div>
559    
560 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unclosed-comment"><h3>Comment is not closed by a string
561 wakaba 1.25 <code>--&gt;</code>.</h3></div>
562    
563 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unclosed-DOCTYPE"><h3>The <code>DOCTYPE</code> is not closed by a
564 wakaba 1.25 <code>&gt;</code> character.</h3></div>
565    
566 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unclosed-PUBLIC-literal"><h3>The public identifier literal is not closed by a
567 wakaba 1.25 quotation mark.</h3></div>
568    
569 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unclosed-SYSTEM-literal"><h3>The system identifier literal is not closed by a
570 wakaba 1.25 quotation mark.</h3></div>
571    
572 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unclosed-tag"><h3>Tag is not closed by a <code>&gt;</code>
573 wakaba 1.25 character.</h3></div>
574    
575 wakaba 1.1 </section>
576    
577 wakaba 1.2 <section id="html5-parse-errors">
578     <h2>HTML5 Parse Errors in Tree Construction Stage</h2>
579    
580 wakaba 1.36 <div class="section" id="after-after-frameset"><h3>There is a start tag
581     <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is after the <code>html</code> element
582     is closed.</h3></div>
583    
584     <div class="section" id="after-after-frameset:/"><h3>There is an end tag
585     <code>&lt;/<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is after the <code>html</code> element
586     is closed.</h3></div>
587    
588 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-body"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
589 wakaba 1.25 not allowed after the <code>body</code> is closed.</h3></div>
590    
591 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-body:/"><h3>End tag <code>&lt;/<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
592 wakaba 1.25 not allowed after the <code>body</code> is closed.</h3></div>
593    
594 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-body:#text"><h3>Non‐white‐space characters are not allowed
595 wakaba 1.25 after the <code>body</code> is closed.</h3></div>
596    
597 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-frameset"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
598 wakaba 1.25 not allowed after the <code>frameset</code> is closed.</h3></div>
599    
600 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-frameset:/"><h3>End tag <code>&lt;/<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
601 wakaba 1.25 not allowed after the <code>frameset</code> is closed.</h3></div>
602    
603 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-frameset:#text"><h3>Non‐white‐space characters are not allowed
604 wakaba 1.25 after the <code>frame</code> is closed.</h3></div>
605    
606 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-head"><h3>The <code><var>{text}</var></code> element cannot be
607 wakaba 1.25 inserted between <code>head</code> and <code>body</code>
608     elements.</h3>
609 wakaba 1.3 <p>A start tag appears after the <code>head</code> element is closed
610 wakaba 1.2 but before the <code>body</code> element is opened.
611     The document is non-conforming.</p>
612     </div>
613    
614 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-html"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
615 wakaba 1.34 not allowed after the <code>html</code> is closed.</h3>
616     <p>The start tag of an element appears after the
617     <code>body</code> element has been closed. The document is
618     non-conforming.</p>
619    
620     <p>Any content of the document other than <code>head</code>
621     contents and comments must be put into the <code>body</code>
622     element.</p>
623     </div>
624 wakaba 1.25
625 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-html:/"><h3>End tag <code>&lt;/<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
626 wakaba 1.34 not allowed after the <code>html</code> is closed.</h3>
627     <p>The end tag of an element appears after the
628     <code>body</code> element has been closed. The document is
629     non-conforming.</p>
630    
631     <p>Any content of the document other than <code>head</code>
632     contents and comments must be put into the <code>body</code>
633     element.</p>
634     </div>
635 wakaba 1.25
636 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="after-html:#text"><h3>Non‐white‐space characters are not allowed
637 wakaba 1.25 after the <code>html</code> is closed.</h3></div>
638    
639 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="image"><h3>The <code>image</code> element is
640 wakaba 1.25 obsolete.</h3></div>
641 wakaba 1.4
642 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-a:a"><h3>Anchor cannot be nested.</h3>
643 wakaba 1.5 <p>HTML <code>a</code> elements cannot be nested.
644     The document is non-conforming.</p>
645    
646     <p>In the HTML syntax, a start tag of the <code>a</code>
647     implies the end tag of any opening <code>a</code> element.</p>
648     </div>
649    
650 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-body"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code>
651 wakaba 1.9 is not allowed in the <code>body</code> element.</h3>
652 wakaba 1.4 <p>The start or end tag of an element, which
653     cannot be a descendant of <code>body</code> element, appears
654     in the input stream while the <code>body</code> element has been opened.
655     The document is non-conforming.</p>
656     </div>
657    
658 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-body:#eof"><h3>Some element is not closed before the end of
659 wakaba 1.25 file.</h3></div>
660    
661 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-button:button"><h3>The <code>button</code> element cannot be
662 wakaba 1.25 nested.</h3></div>
663    
664 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-CDATA:#eof"><h3>Element is not closed before the end of
665 wakaba 1.25 file.</h3></div>
666    
667 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-form:form"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;form&gt;</code> is
668 wakaba 1.25 not allowed in a <code>form</code> element.</h3></div>
669    
670 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-frameset"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
671 wakaba 1.25 not allowed in a <code>framset</code> element.</h3></div>
672    
673 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-frameset:/"><h3>End tag <code>&lt;/<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
674 wakaba 1.25 not allowed in a <code>frameset</code> element.</h3></div>
675    
676 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-frameset:#text"><h3>Non‐white‐space characters are not allowed
677 wakaba 1.25 in a <code>frameset</code> element.</h3></div>
678    
679 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-head:head"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;head&gt;</code>
680 wakaba 1.6 is not allowed in the <code>head</code> element.</h3>
681     <p>There is a start tag <code>&lt;head&gt;</code> in the
682     <code>&lt;head&gt;</code> element. The document is non-conforming.</p>
683    
684     <p>In an HTML document there must not be more than
685     one <code>head</code> element, therefore no more than one
686     start tag <code>&lt;head&gt;</code> can appear in the input stream.</p>
687     </div>
688    
689 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-html:#DOCTYPE"><h3>A <code>DOCTYPE</code> appears after any
690 wakaba 1.25 element or data character has been seen.</h3>
691     <p>A <code>DOCTYPE</code> appears after any element or data character
692     has been seen. The document is non-conforming.</p>
693    
694     <p>The <code>DOCTYPE</code> must be placed before any
695     tag, reference, or data character. Only white space characters
696     and comments can be inserted before the <code>DOCTYPE</code>.</p>
697     </div>
698    
699 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-nobr:nobr"><h3>The <code>nobr</code> element cannot be
700 wakaba 1.25 nested.</h3></div>
701    
702 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-noscript"><h3>The <code><var>{text}</var></code> element is not
703 wakaba 1.25 allowed in a <code>noscript</code> element in the
704     <code>head</code> element.</h3></div>
705    
706 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-noscript:/"><h3>An end tag <code>&lt;/<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code>
707 wakaba 1.25 appers before the <code>noscript</code> element is closed.</h3></div>
708    
709 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-noscript:#eof"><h3>A <code>noscript</code> element is not closed
710 wakaba 1.25 before the end of file.</h3></div>
711    
712 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-noscript:#text"><h3>Non‐white‐space characters are not allowed
713 wakaba 1.25 in a <code>noscript</code> element in the <code>head</code>
714     element.</h3></div>
715    
716 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-PCDATA:#eof"><h3>Element is not closed before the end of
717 wakaba 1.25 file.</h3></div>
718    
719 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-select"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code>
720 wakaba 1.25 is not allowed in a <code>select</code> element.</h3></div>
721    
722 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-select:/"><h3>End tag <code>&lt;/<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code>
723 wakaba 1.25 is not allowed in a <code>select</code> element.</h3></div>
724    
725 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-table"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code>
726 wakaba 1.6 is not allowed in a <code>table</code> element.</h3>
727 wakaba 1.4 <p>The start or end tag of an element, which
728     cannot be a child of <code>table</code> element, appears
729     in the input stream while the <code>table</code> element has been opened
730     but no other element has been opened. The document is non-conforming.</p>
731 wakaba 1.3
732     <p>In <code>table</code>, only table related elements
733     are allowed; any other element must be contained in
734     <code>td</code> or <code>th</code> element to form
735     a part of the table, or <code>caption</code> element to create
736     a table caption.</p>
737     </div>
738    
739 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-table:/"><h3>End tag <code>&lt;/<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code>
740 wakaba 1.25 is not allowed in a <code>table</code> element.</h3></div>
741    
742 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-table:#text"><h3>Non‐white‐space character is not allowed within
743 wakaba 1.25 the <code>table</code> element, outside of the caption and cells.</h3>
744     <p>A non‐white‐space character appears in <code>table</code>.
745     The document is non-conforming.</p>
746 wakaba 1.3
747     <p>In <code>table</code>, only table related elements
748     are allowed; any other element and data character must be contained in
749     <code>td</code> or <code>th</code> element to form
750     a part of the table, or <code>caption</code> element to create
751     a table caption.</p>
752     </div>
753    
754 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="isindex"><h3>The <code>isindex</code> element is
755 wakaba 1.25 obsolete.</h3></div>
756    
757 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="missing-start-tag:tr"><h3>Start tag of <code>tr</code>
758 wakaba 1.3 element is missing.</h3>
759     <p>Start tag of a <code>tr</code> element, which is <em>not</em>
760     optional, is missing. The document is non-conforming.</p>
761    
762     <p>In a table section, a <code>&lt;tr&gt;</code> start tag
763     must occur before any <code>&lt;td&gt;</code> or
764     <code>&lt;th&gt;</code> start tag. Though the HTML5 parser
765     implies the <code>&lt;tr&gt;</code> start tag before
766     these start tags, it must be explicitly specified.</p>
767     </div>
768    
769 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-DOCTYPE"><h3>This document does not start with a
770 wakaba 1.3 <code>DOCTYPE</code>.</h3>
771     <p>The document does not start with a <code>DOCTYPE</code>.
772     The document is non-conforming.</p>
773    
774     <p>An HTML document must start by a <code>DOCTYPE</code>:
775     <pre class="html example">
776     <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;</code></pre>
777     </p>
778    
779     <p>Only white space characters and comments are allowed
780 wakaba 1.11 before the <code>DOCTYPE</code>. XML declaration is <em>not</em>
781     allowed in HTML document.</p>
782 wakaba 1.3 </div>
783 wakaba 1.2
784 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="not-closed"><h3>Element <code><var>{text}</var></code> is not
785 wakaba 1.3 closed.</h3>
786     <p>End tag of an element is not found before, for example,
787     an end tag of another element appears or
788     the end of the document. The document is non-conforming.</p>
789 wakaba 1.10
790 wakaba 1.11 <p>Only <code>body</code>, <code>colgroup</code>, <code>dd</code>,
791     <code>dt</code>, <code>head</code>, <code>html</code>, <code>li</code>,
792 wakaba 1.10 <code>ol</code>, <code>option</code>, <code>optgroup</code>,
793 wakaba 1.11 <code>p</code>, <code>rb</code>, <code>rp</code>, <code>rt</code>,
794     <code>tbody</code>, <code>td</code>, <code>tfoot</code>,
795     <code>th</code>, <code>thead</code>, <code>tr</code>,
796     <code>ul</code> end tag can be omitted in HTML documents.
797 wakaba 1.10 For any element except for void element, there must be an explicit
798     end tag.</p>
799    
800 wakaba 1.11 <dl class="switch">
801     <dt>HTML <code>canvas</code> element</dt>
802     <dd>Though the element is void in earlier versions of Safari,
803     the <code>canvas</code> element is <em>no</em> longer
804     defined as empty. There must be an end tag
805 wakaba 1.14 <code class="html example">&lt;/canvas&gt;</code>.</dd>
806 wakaba 1.11 </dl>
807    
808 wakaba 1.10 <p>Note that misnesting tags, such as
809     <code class="bad example">&lt;a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;</code>, are not
810     allowed and they also cause this error.</p>
811 wakaba 1.3 </div>
812 wakaba 1.2
813 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="not-first-start-tag"><h3>This <code>&lt;html&gt;</code> tag is not
814 wakaba 1.6 the first start tag.</h3>
815     <p>There is a start tag of the <code>html</code> element
816     that it not the first start tag in the input stream.
817     The document is non-conforming.</p>
818    
819     <p>In an HTML document, there cannot be more than one
820     <code>html</code> element and therefore there cannot be
821     more than one <code>&lt;html&gt;</code> tag. In addition,
822     nothing can be placed before the <code>&lt;html&gt;</code> tag
823     except a <code>DOCTYPE</code>, white space characters,
824     and comments.</p>
825     </div>
826    
827 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="not-HTML5"><h3>This document is written in an old version of
828 wakaba 1.3 HTML.</h3>
829     <p>The document contains a <code>DOCTYPE</code> declaration
830 wakaba 1.6 that is different from HTML5 <code>DOCTYPE</code> (i.e.
831 wakaba 1.14 <code class="example html">&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;</code>).
832     The document is non‐conforming.</p>
833 wakaba 1.3
834     <p>The document might or might not be conformant to
835     some version of HTML. However, conformance to any HTML
836     specification other than HTML5 provides for no practical
837     convenience, since Web borwsers will parse any
838     HTML document (roughly) as defined in HTML5.</p>
839     </div>
840 wakaba 1.2
841 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="start-tag-not-allowed"><h3>Start tag <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
842 wakaba 1.25 not allowed here.</h3></div>
843    
844 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unmatched-end-tag"><h3>Element <code><var>{text}</var></code> is not
845 wakaba 1.4 opened.</h3>
846     <p>An end tag appears though no element with the same name
847     has been opened. The document is non-conforming.</p>
848    
849     <p>For any end tag in HTML document, there must be a
850     corresponding start tag.</p>
851 wakaba 1.11
852     <dl class="switch">
853     <dt>HTML <code>base</code>, <code>basefont</code>,
854     <code>bgsound</code>, <code>br</code>, <code>col</code>,
855     <code>embed</code>, <code>frame</code>, <code>hr</code>,
856     <code>image</code>, <code>img</code>, <code>input</code>,
857     <code>isindex</code>, <code>link</code>, <code>meta</code>,
858     <code>param</code>, <code>spacer</code>, or <code>wbr</code> element</dt>
859     <dd>End tag is not allowed for these elements, since
860     those content must always be empty. Remove end tag.</dd>
861     <!-- keygen -->
862     <!-- command, event-source, nest, source -->
863     </dl>
864 wakaba 1.4 </div>
865 wakaba 1.2
866     </section>
867    
868 wakaba 1.1 <section id="element-content-model-errors">
869     <h2>Element Content Model Errors</h2>
870    
871 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="basehref-after-URL-attribute"><h3>The <code>base</code> element with the
872 wakaba 1.26 <code>href</code> attribute specified cannot be placed after
873     any attribute with a URL.</h3></div>
874    
875 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="basetarget-after-hyperlink"><h3>The <code>base</code> element with the
876 wakaba 1.26 <code>target</code> attribute specified cannot be placed after
877     any element that defines a hyperlink.</h3></div>
878    
879 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="character-not-allowed"><h3>Data character is not allowed in this
880 wakaba 1.1 context.</h3>
881 wakaba 1.3 <p>A data character appears where it is not allowed in this
882 wakaba 1.1 context. The document is non-conforming.</p>
883    
884     <p>Possible causes:
885 wakaba 1.6 <ul>
886     <li><p>A data character cannot be a child
887     of certain sectioning elements such as <code>body</code>,
888     <code>section</code>, and <code>blockquote</code>.</p>
889    
890     <p>Any inline-level content must be put
891     in e.g. paragraph element such as <code>p</code>.</p></li>
892     <li><p>Though some elements such as <code>div</code>,
893     <code>li</code>, and <code>td</code> allow
894     <em>either one</em> of block-level or inline-level content
895     is allowed. If there is a block-level content,
896     any inline-level content must be put
897     in e.g. paragraph element such as <code>p</code>.</p></li>
898     </ul>
899 wakaba 1.1 </p>
900     </div>
901    
902 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="character-not-allowed:empty"><h3>Non‐white‐space characters are not allowed in
903 wakaba 1.26 an empty element.</h3></div>
904    
905 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="character-not-allowed:atom|PersonConstruct"><h3>Non‐white‐space characters are not allowed in
906 wakaba 1.27 Person construct.</h3></div>
907    
908 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="character-not-allowed:atom|TextConstruct"><h3>Non‐white‐space characters are not allowed in
909 wakaba 1.27 Text construct.</h3></div>
910    
911 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="child-element-missing"><h3>There must be an element
912 wakaba 1.27 <code><var>{text}</var></code> as a child of this element.</h3>
913 wakaba 1.1 <p>The content model of the element is so defined that it
914     must contain a <code><var>$0</var></code> child element.
915 wakaba 1.3 The document is non-conforming.</p>
916 wakaba 1.1
917 wakaba 1.11 <dl class="switch">
918     <dt>HTML <code>head</code> element</dt>
919     <dd>There must be a <code>title</code> child element.</dd>
920     <dt>HTML <code>html</code> element</dt>
921     <dd>There must be a <code>head</code> child element followed
922     by a <code>body</code> element.</dd>
923     <dt>HTML <code>tr</code> element</dt>
924     <dd><a href="#child-element-missing:td%7Cth">There must be
925     one or more <code>td</code> or <code>th</code> child element.</a></dd>
926     </dl>
927 wakaba 1.1 </div>
928    
929 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="child-element-missing:td|th"><h3>There must be a <code>td</code>
930 wakaba 1.1 or <code>th</code> element as a child of this element.</h3>
931     <p>The <code>tr</code> element must contain at least one
932 wakaba 1.3 <code>td</code> or <code>th</code> child element. The document
933     is non-conforming.</p>
934 wakaba 1.1 </div>
935    
936 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="child-element-missing:atom"><h3>There must be an element
937 wakaba 1.27 <code><var>{text}</var></code> in the Atom namespace as a child of this
938     element.</h3></div>
939    
940 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="child-element-missing:atom:link:alternate"><h3>There must be an Atom <code>link</code> element
941 wakaba 1.27 whose <code>rel</code> attribute is set to <code>alternate</code> as a
942     child of this element.</h3></div>
943    
944 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="child-element-missing:atom:link:self"><h3>There should be an Atom <code>link</code> element
945 wakaba 1.27 whose <code>rel</code> attribute is set to <code>self</code> as a
946     child of this element.</h3></div>
947    
948 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-missing:hn"><h3>There must be at least one
949 wakaba 1.26 <code>h<var>n</var></code> element descendant.</h3></div>
950    
951 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed"><h3>This element is not allowed in this
952 wakaba 1.1 context.</h3>
953 wakaba 1.3 <p>An element appears where it is not allowed. The document
954 wakaba 1.1 is non-conforming.</p>
955    
956     <p>Possible causes:
957 wakaba 1.6 <dl class="switch">
958     <dt>If the element with the error is an inline-level element,
959     such as <code>a</code>, <code>progress</code>, or <code>img</code></dt>
960 wakaba 1.1 <dd><p>An inline-level element cannot be a child
961     of certain sectioning elements such as <code>body</code>,
962     <code>section</code>, and <code>blockquote</code>.</p>
963    
964     <p>Any inline-level content must be put
965     in e.g. paragraph element such as <code>p</code>.</p></dd>
966 wakaba 1.9 <dt>If it is a block-level elements, such as <code>aside</code>,
967     <code>div</code>, <code>h<var>n</var></code>,
968     <code>p</code>, or <code>section</code></dt>
969     <dd><dl class="switch">
970     <dt>If the parent element is <code>div</code>,
971     <code>li</code>, <code>td</code>, or <code>th</code></dt>
972     <!-- @@ TODO: more... -->
973 wakaba 1.10 <!-- @@ TODO: <p><ul><li><p> -->
974 wakaba 1.9 <dd><p>The parent element allows <em>either</em>
975     block-level or inline-level content. If there is a
976     block-level content, any inline-level content must be
977     put in e.g. paragraph element such as <code>p</code>.</p>
978     <p>For example, an HTML document fragment
979 wakaba 1.14 <code class="html bad example">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hello!&lt;/p&gt; World!&lt;/div&gt;</code>
980 wakaba 1.9 is non-conforming, since a word <q>World!</q> does not belong
981     to any paragraph. (If not part of any paragraph, what is
982     it!?) A conforming example would be:
983 wakaba 1.14 <pre class="html example">
984 wakaba 1.9 <code>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hello!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;World!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</code></pre>
985     </p></dd>
986     <dt>If the parent element does <em>not</em> allow
987     block-level elements as content</dt>
988     <dd>The element is not allowed to be inserted here.
989     For example, a <code>div</code> element cannot be
990     a child of an <code>h1</code> element.</dd>
991     </dl></dd>
992 wakaba 1.6 <dt>If the element with the error is a <code>noscript</code> element</dt>
993     <dd>The <code>noscript</code> element is allowed only in the context
994     where a block-level or inline-level content is expected
995     and in the <code>head</code> element.
996     It cannot be used in e.g. <code>ul</code>, <code>table</code>,
997     or <code>select</code>.</dd>
998 wakaba 1.8 <dt>If the element with the error is <code>blink</code>,
999     <code>center</code>, or <code>marquee</code> element</dt>
1000     <dd>These elements are not part of the HTML standard.
1001     Use CSS for styling control.</dd>
1002 wakaba 1.9
1003 wakaba 1.11 <dt><code>button</code>, <code>datalist</code>,
1004     <code>fieldset</code>, <code>form</code>,
1005 wakaba 1.9 <code>input</code>, <code>label</code>,
1006     <code>optgroup</code>, <code>option</code>, <code>output</code>,
1007     <code>rb</code>, <code>rp</code>, <code>rt</code>, <code>ruby</code>,
1008     <code>textarea</code>, or <code>textarea</code> element</dt>
1009     <!-- rbc, rtc ? -->
1010     <dd>These elements are intentionally not supported by the conformance
1011     checker <em>yet</em>.</dd>
1012 wakaba 1.1 </dl>
1013     </p>
1014     </div>
1015    
1016 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:area"><h3>An <code>area</code> element cannot be used
1017 wakaba 1.26 outside of a <code>map</code> element.</h3></div>
1018    
1019 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:base"><h3>There is another <code>base</code>
1020 wakaba 1.26 element.</h3></div>
1021    
1022 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:datatemplate"><h3>In a <code>datatemplate</code> element, only
1023 wakaba 1.26 <code>rule</code> elements are allowed.</h3></div>
1024    
1025 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:details-legend"><h3>In a <code>details</code> element, only at the
1026 wakaba 1.26 beginning of the element a <code>lengend</code> element
1027     may be used.</h3></div>
1028    
1029 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:empty"><h3>Elements are not allowed in an empty
1030 wakaba 1.26 element.</h3></div>
1031    
1032 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:figure-legend"><h3>In a <code>figure</code> element, only at the
1033 wakaba 1.26 beginning or only at the end of the element a <code>lengend</code> element
1034     may be used.</h3></div>
1035    
1036 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:flow"><h3>This element is not allowed where flow
1037 wakaba 1.26 content is expected.</h3></div>
1038    
1039 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:flow-style"><h3>A <code>style</code> element without
1040 wakaba 1.26 <code>scoped</code> attribute is not allowed in this context.</h3></div>
1041    
1042 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:head-noscript"><h3>This element is not allowed in a
1043 wakaba 1.26 <code>noscript</code> element in the <code>head</code> element.</h3></div>
1044    
1045 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:head-style"><h3>A <code>style</code> element with
1046 wakaba 1.26 <code>scoped</code> attribute is not allowed in the <code>head</code>
1047     element.</h3></div>
1048    
1049 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:head-title"><h3>There is another <code>title</code>
1050 wakaba 1.26 element.</h3></div>
1051    
1052 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:minus"><h3>This element is not allowed in this
1053 wakaba 1.26 context.</h3></div>
1054    
1055 wakaba 1.36 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:meta-charset"><h3>The character encoding declaration is not the
1056     first child element in the <code>head</code> element.</h3>
1057     <p>The character encoding declaration
1058     (<code class="html example">&lt;meta charset="<var>...</var>"&gt;</code> or
1059     <code class="html example">&lt;meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=<var>...</var>"&gt;</code>
1060     must be the first child element in the <code>head</code> element.</p>
1061    
1062     <p>The character encoding declaration have to occur near the beginning
1063     of the document to ensure that Web browsers can be determine the
1064     character encoding of the document.</p>
1065    
1066     <p>The <code>title</code> element and other metadata elements must
1067     appear after any character encoding declaration is processed.</p>
1068     </div>
1069 wakaba 1.26
1070 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:metadata"><h3>This element is not allowed where metadata
1071 wakaba 1.26 content is expected.</h3></div>
1072    
1073 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:phrasing"><h3>This element is not allowed where phrasing
1074 wakaba 1.26 content is expected.</h3></div>
1075    
1076 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:root"><h3>This element is not allowed as the root
1077 wakaba 1.26 element of a document.</h3>
1078 wakaba 1.11 <p>An element that is not allowed as the root element
1079     is used as the root element of the document. The document is
1080     non-conforming, as far as the conformance checker can tell.</p>
1081    
1082     <dl class="switch">
1083     <dt><code>html</code> element in an XHTML document</dt>
1084 wakaba 1.14 <dd><p>In <abbr>XHTML</abbr> document, the root <code>html</code>
1085     element must have an <code>xmlns</code> attribute as:
1086     <pre class="xml example">
1087 wakaba 1.21 <code>&lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;</code></pre></p></dd>
1088 wakaba 1.11 <dt><code>rss</code> element</dt>
1089     <dd><p>The document is written in some version of RSS.</p>
1090     <p>The conformance checker does not support any version
1091     of RSS. Use Atom 1.0 for feed documents.</p></dd>
1092     <dt><code>feed</code> element</dt>
1093     <dd><p>The Atom <code>feed</code> element must be
1094 wakaba 1.14 in the <code>http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom</code>
1095     namespace as:
1096     <pre class="xml example">
1097 wakaba 1.21 <code>&lt;feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"&gt;</code></pre>
1098 wakaba 1.14 </p>
1099 wakaba 1.11 <p>The conformance checker does not support Atom 0.3.
1100     Use Atom 1.0 for feed documents.</p></dd>
1101     </dl>
1102     </div>
1103    
1104 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:root:xml"><h3>This element is not allowed as the root element
1105 wakaba 1.26 of an XML document.</h3></div>
1106    
1107 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:ruby-base"><h3>This element is not allowed in the <code>ruby</code>
1108 wakaba 1.26 element.</h3></div>
1109    
1110 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:text"><h3>This element is not allowed in this
1111 wakaba 1.26 context.</h3></div>
1112    
1113 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:atom|content"><h3>This element is not allowed in an Atom
1114 wakaba 1.27 <code>content</code> element.</h3></div>
1115    
1116 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:atom|PersonConstruct"><h3>This element is not allowed in Person
1117 wakaba 1.27 construct.</h3></div>
1118    
1119 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="element-not-allowed:atom|TextConstruct"><h3>This element is not allowed in Text
1120 wakaba 1.27 construct.</h3></div>
1121    
1122 wakaba 1.36 <div class="section" id="element-not-defined"><h3>This element is not defined.</h3>
1123     <p>The element is not one of elements allowed
1124     in the latest version of relevant specifications.</p>
1125    
1126     <p>The element cannot be used.</p>
1127    
1128     <dl class="switch">
1129     <dt><code>event-source</code> element</dt>
1130     <dd>The element was renamed as <em><code>eventsource</code>
1131     element</em> (no hyphen).</dd>
1132     <dt><code>m</code> element</dt>
1133     <dd>The element was renamed as <em><code>mark</code>
1134     element</em>.</dd>
1135     </dl>
1136     </div>
1137 wakaba 1.26
1138 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-significant-content"><h3>No significant content is contained
1139 wakaba 1.26 in this element.</h3></div>
1140    
1141 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-significant-content-before"><h3>There is no significant content
1142 wakaba 1.26 before this element.</h3></div>
1143    
1144 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-significant-content-at-the-end"><h3>No significant content is contained
1145 wakaba 1.26 at the end of this element.</h3></div>
1146    
1147 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="ps-element-missing"><h3>There is no <code><var>{text}</var></code>
1148 wakaba 1.6 element before this element.</h3>
1149     <p>There must be an element before another element, but there
1150     is not. The document is non-conforming.</p>
1151    
1152     <p>For example, there must be a <code>dt</code> element
1153     before any <code>dd</code> element.</p>
1154     </div>
1155    
1156 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="rp:syntax-error"><h3>The content of a <code>rp</code> element must
1157 wakaba 1.26 be a parenthesis.</h3></div>
1158    
1159 wakaba 1.2 </section>
1160    
1161 wakaba 1.3 <section id="attribute-errors">
1162     <h2>Attribute Errors</h2>
1163    
1164 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="attribute-missing"><h3>Required attribute <code><var>{text}</var></code>
1165 wakaba 1.3 is not specified.</h3>
1166     <p>A required attribute is not specified. The document
1167     is non-conforming.</p>
1168    
1169     <p>Some attribute is defined as <i>required</i>.
1170     Without required attributes specified, user agents
1171 wakaba 1.9 cannot provide full functionality of the element to the user.</p>
1172    
1173     <dl class="switch">
1174     <dt>HTML <code>img</code> element</dt>
1175     <dd>The <code>src</code> attribute must be specified.
1176     Additionally, the <code>alt</code> attribute must be specified
1177     in many cases.</dd>
1178     <dt>HTML <code>link</code> element</dt>
1179     <dd>The <code>rel</code> attribute must be specified.
1180     Note that the <code>rev</code> attribute is obsolete.</dd>
1181     </dl>
1182 wakaba 1.3 </div>
1183    
1184 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="attribute-missing:data|type"><h3>For an <code>object</code> at least one of
1185 wakaba 1.26 <code>data</code> and <code>type</code> attributes must be
1186     specified.</h3></div>
1187    
1188 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="attribute-missing:href|target"><h3>For a <code>base</code> element, at least one of
1189 wakaba 1.26 <code>href</code> and <code>target</code> attributes must be
1190     specified.</h3></div>
1191    
1192 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="attribute-missing:name|http-equiv"><h3>For a <code>meta</code> element with the
1193 wakaba 1.26 <code>content</code> attribute specified, exactly one of
1194     <code>name</code> and <code>http-equiv</code> attributes must be
1195     specified.</h3></div>
1196    
1197 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="attribute-missing:name|http-equiv|charset"><h3>For a <code>meta</code> element, exactly one of
1198 wakaba 1.26 <code>name</code>, <code>http-equiv</code>, and <code>charset</code>
1199     attributes must be specified.</h3></div>
1200    
1201 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="attribute-not-allowed"><h3>Attribute
1202 wakaba 1.8 <code><var>{local-name}</var></code> is not allowed for
1203     <code><var>{element-local-name}</var></code> element.</h3>
1204     <p>An attribute is specified where it is not allowed.
1205     The document is non-conforming.</p>
1206    
1207     <dl>
1208     <dt>HTML <code>meta</code> element</dt>
1209     <dd>For HTML <code>meta</code> element, <em>only one</em> of
1210     <code>name</code>, <code>http-equiv</code>, or <code>charset</code>
1211     attribute is allowed.</dd>
1212     </dl>
1213     </div>
1214    
1215 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="attribute-not-allowed:ismap"><h3>The <code>ismap</code> attribute may only be
1216 wakaba 1.26 used for the image contained in an <code>a</code> element.</h3></div>
1217    
1218 wakaba 1.35 <div class="section" id="attribute-not-defined"><h3>This attribute is not defined.</h3>
1219     <p>The attribute is not one of attributes allowed for the element
1220     in the latest version of relevant specifications.</p>
1221 wakaba 1.26
1222 wakaba 1.35 <p>The attribute cannot be used.</p>
1223    
1224 wakaba 1.36 <dl class="switch">
1225     <dt><code>align</code> attribute (various HTML elements)</dt>
1226     <dt><code>border</code> attribute (various HTML elements)</dt>
1227     <dd>These attributes are no longer part of HTML. You can use CSS
1228     properties to control the presentation of the element.</dd>
1229 wakaba 1.35 <dt><code>autosubmit</code> attribute (<code>menu</code> element)</dt>
1230     <dd>The attribute was part of HTML5 draft but then dropped.
1231     Similar functionality can be implemented by scripts.</dd>
1232 wakaba 1.36 <dt><code>language</code> attribute (<code>script</code> element)</dt>
1233     <dd>The attribute is no longer the standard way to specify the
1234     scripting language. If you are using JavaScript, then no explicit
1235     specification of the scripting language is necessary, so you can
1236     write the element like:
1237     <p><code class="html example code">&lt;script&gt;<br><!--
1238     --> /* JavaScript code */<br><!--
1239     -->&lt;/script&gt;</code></p>
1240     If you are using different scripting language from JavaScript, or
1241     you want to declare the scripting language explicitly, you should
1242     use the <code>type</code> attribute, as follows:
1243     <dl class="switch">
1244     <dt>JavaScript</dt>
1245     <dd>Use
1246     <code class="html example">&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;</code>.</dd>
1247     <dt>VBScript</dt>
1248     <dd>Use
1249     <code class="html example">&lt;script type="text/vbscript"&gt;</code>.</dd>
1250     </dl>
1251     </dd>
1252 wakaba 1.35 </dl>
1253     </div>
1254 wakaba 1.3
1255 wakaba 1.35 <div class="section" id="in-HTML:xml:lang"><h3>The <code>xml:lang</code> attribute in HTML
1256     document is ignored.</h3>
1257     <p>The <code>xml:lang</code> attribute does not have an effect in
1258     HTML document.</p>
1259    
1260     <p>The <code>xml:lang</code> attribute is only applicable to XML
1261     documents. In HTML document, it is only allowed to ease migration
1262     from XML.</p>
1263 wakaba 1.3
1264     <p>To specify natural language information in HTML document,
1265     use <code>lang</code> attribute instead.</p>
1266 wakaba 1.6
1267     <p>XHTML 1.0 Appendix C was encouraged to specify both
1268     <code>lang</code> and <code>xml:lang</code> attributes with
1269     the same value. Such a duplication has <em>no effect</em> in practice.
1270     Use only one of <code>lang</code> (in HTML) or <code>xml:lang</code> (in
1271     XML).</p>
1272    
1273 wakaba 1.3 <!-- @@ ISSUE: xml:lang in non-HTML element in DOM5 HTML created
1274     from an HTML document? -->
1275     </div>
1276    
1277 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-XML:charset"><h3>The <code>charset</code> attribute is not
1278 wakaba 1.3 allowed in XML document.</h3>
1279     <p>The <code>charset</code> attribute of a
1280     <code>meta</code> element is not allowed in XML document.
1281     The document is non-conforming.</p>
1282    
1283     <p>To specify the character encoding used for serialization,
1284     if necessary, use XML declaration instead:
1285     <pre class="xml example">
1286 wakaba 1.21 <code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="<var>encoding-name</var>"?&gt;</code></pre>
1287 wakaba 1.3 </p>
1288     </div>
1289    
1290 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-XML:noscript"><h3>A <code>noscript</code> element cannot be
1291 wakaba 1.26 used in XML document.</h3></div>
1292    
1293 wakaba 1.35 <div class="section" id="in-XML:xml:lang"><h3>The <code>xml:lang</code> attribute in no namespace
1294     is only allowed in HTML document.</h3></div>
1295    
1296 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="in-XML:xmlns"><h3>The <code>xmlns</code> attribute
1297 wakaba 1.3 in the <code>null</code> namespace is not allowed in
1298     XHTML document. The document is non-conforming.</h3>
1299     <p>The <code>xmlns</code> attribute in the <code>null</code>
1300     namespace is not allowed in XHTML document.</p>
1301    
1302 wakaba 1.9 <p>This error should not occur in conformance-checking of
1303 wakaba 1.3 static documents.</p>
1304     </div>
1305    
1306 wakaba 1.35 <div class="section" id="xml:lang-not-allowed"><h3>The <code>xml:lang</code> attribute is only allowed
1307     when the <code>lang</code> attribute is specified.</h3></div>
1308    
1309 wakaba 1.3 </section>
1310    
1311 wakaba 1.2 <section id="attribute-value-errors">
1312     <h2>Attribute Value Errors</h2>
1313    
1314 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="boolean:invalid"><h3>Attribute value <code><var>{@}</var></code>
1315 wakaba 1.26 is not allowed. It must be an empty string or a string
1316     <code><var>{local-name}</var></code>.</h3></div>
1317    
1318 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="char:syntax-error"><h3>The attribute value must be exactly one
1319 wakaba 1.26 character.</h3></div>
1320    
1321 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="charref-in-charset"><h3>A character reference cannot be used to
1322 wakaba 1.26 represent a character encoding name.</h3></div>
1323    
1324 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="charset:not-preferred"><h3>Character encoding name
1325 wakaba 1.26 <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not the preferred name of that
1326     character encoding.</h3></div>
1327    
1328 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="charset:not-registered"><h3>Character encoding name
1329 wakaba 1.26 <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not a registered name.</h3>
1330 wakaba 1.16 <p>The specified character encoding name is not registered to
1331     <abbr>IANA</abbr>. Use of registered character encoding name
1332     is a good practice to facilitate interoperability.</p>
1333    
1334     <dl class="switch">
1335     <dt><code>EUC-TW</code></dt>
1336     <dd><code>EUC-TW</code> is not registered. Unfortunately, there
1337     is no registered name for that character encoding. Use
1338     Big5 encoding with character encoding name <code>Big5</code>
1339     if it is enough to represent the document.</dd>
1340     <dt><code>ISO-2022-JP-1</code></dt>
1341     <dd><code>ISO-2022-JP-1</code> is not registered, nevertheless
1342     this character encoding name is documented in
1343     <a href="urn:ietf:rfc:2237"><abbr>RFC</abbr> 2237</a>. Use
1344     <code>ISO-2022-JP-2</code> instead, since that character encoding
1345     is a superset of ISO-2022-JP-1.</dd>
1346     <dt><code>ISO-2022-JP-3</code>, <code>ISO-2022-JP-3-plane1</code></dt>
1347     <dd>These names are not registered and obsoleted in favor of
1348     <code>ISO-2022-JP-2004</code> and
1349     <code>ISO-2022-JP-2004-plane1</code>.</dd>
1350     <dt><code>ISO-2022-JP-2003</code>,
1351     <code>ISO-2022-JP-2003-plane1</code></dt>
1352     <dd>These names are not registered and corrected to
1353     <code>ISO-2022-JP-2004</code> and
1354     <code>ISO-2022-JP-2004-plane1</code>.</dd>
1355     <dt><code>ISO-2022-JP-2004</code>,
1356     <code>ISO-2022-JP-2004-plane1</code></dt>
1357     <dd>These names are not registered. Unfortunately, there is
1358     no registered name for these character encodings.</dd>
1359     <dt><code>UTF-8N</code></dt>
1360     <dd><code>UTF-8N</code> is not registered. Character encoding
1361     name <code>UTF-8</code> represents UTF-8 encoding with or
1362     without <abbr>BOM</abbr>.</dd>
1363     </dl>
1364    
1365     <p><strong>WARNING</strong>: This error might be raised for
1366     a registered character encoding name, since the character encoding
1367     name database of the conformance checker is not complete yet.</p>
1368     </div>
1369    
1370 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="charset:private"><h3>Character encoding name
1371 wakaba 1.26 <code><var>{value}</var></code> is a private name.</h3>
1372 wakaba 1.16 <p>The specified character encoding name is a private name and
1373     not registered to <abbr>IANA</abbr>. Use of registered character
1374     encoding name is a good practice to facilitate interoperability.</p>
1375    
1376     <dl class="switch">
1377     <dt><code>x-euc-jp</code></dt>
1378     <dd>Use <code>EUC-JP</code> for the Japanese <abbr>EUC</abbr>
1379     character encoding.</dd>
1380     <dt><code>x-sjis</code></dt>
1381     <dd>Use <code>Shift_JIS</code> for standard Shift encoding scheme of
1382     <abbr>JIS</abbr> coded character set, or <code>Windows-31J</code>
1383     for Microsoft standard character set as implemented by
1384     Microsoft Windows.</dd>
1385     </dl>
1386     </div>
1387    
1388 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="charset:syntax-error"><h3>The specified value <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1389 wakaba 1.26 is syntactically not a character encoding name.</h3>
1390 wakaba 1.16 <p>The attribute value must be a character encoding name. However,
1391     the specified value is not a character encoding name syntactically.
1392     The document is non‐conforming.</p>
1393     <p>Character encoding name is a string of <abbr>ASCII</abbr>
1394     printable characters, up to 40 characters.</p>
1395     </div>
1396    
1397 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="color:syntax-error"><h3>The specified value is not a color
1398 wakaba 1.26 name or hexadecimal color number.</h3></div>
1399    
1400 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="coords:number-not-3"><h3>The <code>coords</code> attribute have to
1401 wakaba 1.26 contain three (3) numbers (specified:
1402     <code><var>{text}</var></code>).</h3></div>
1403    
1404 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="coords:number-not-4"><h3>The <code>coords</code> attribute have to
1405 wakaba 1.26 contain four (4) numbers (specified:
1406     <code><var>{text}</var></code>).</h3></div>
1407    
1408 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="coords:number-lt-6"><h3>The <code>coords</code> attribute have to
1409 wakaba 1.26 contain more than or equal to six (6) numbers (specified:
1410     <code><var>{text}</var></code>).</h3></div>
1411    
1412 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="coords:number-not-even"><h3>The <code>coords</code> attribute have to
1413 wakaba 1.26 contain even number of numbers (specified:
1414     <code><var>{text}</var></code>).</h3></div>
1415    
1416 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="coords:out-of-range"><h3>The specified value <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1417 wakaba 1.26 is out of range.</h3></div>
1418    
1419 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="coords:syntax-error"><h3>The specified value is not valid.</h3></div>
1420 wakaba 1.26
1421 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="datetime:bad-year"><h3>Year number is out of range.</h3></div>
1422 wakaba 1.26
1423 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="datetime:bad-month"><h3>Month number is out of range.</h3></div>
1424 wakaba 1.26
1425 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="datetime:bad-day"><h3>Day number is out of range.</h3></div>
1426 wakaba 1.26
1427 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="datetime:bad-hour"><h3>Hour number is out of range.</h3></div>
1428 wakaba 1.26
1429 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="datetime:bad-minute"><h3>Minute number is out of range.</h3></div>
1430 wakaba 1.26
1431 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="datetime:bad-second"><h3>Second number is out of range.</h3></div>
1432 wakaba 1.26
1433 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="datetime:bad-timezone-hour"><h3>Hour number of the timezone component is out of
1434 wakaba 1.26 range.</h3></div>
1435    
1436 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="datetime:bad-timezone-minute"><h3>Minute number of the timezone component is out of
1437 wakaba 1.26 range.</h3></div>
1438    
1439 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="datetime:syntax-error"><h3>The attribute value is not a datetime.</h3></div>
1440 wakaba 1.26
1441 wakaba 1.35 <div class="section" id="dateortime:syntax-error"><h3>The value is not a date or time.</h3></div>
1442 wakaba 1.26
1443 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="enumerated:invalid"><h3>This attribute only allow a limited set of
1444 wakaba 1.6 values and the specified value <code><var>{@}</var></code> is not one
1445 wakaba 1.8 of them.</h3>
1446     <p>For this attribute only several values are allowed and the
1447     value of the attribute is not one of them. The document
1448     is non-conforming.</p>
1449    
1450     <dl>
1451     <dt>HTML <code>meta</code> element, <code>http-equiv</code> attribute</dt>
1452 wakaba 1.14 <dd><p>Only values <code>Default-Style</code> and <code>Refresh</code>
1453     are allowed.</p>
1454 wakaba 1.8 <p>Value <code>Content-Type</code> is obsolete; for charset
1455     declaration, the <code>charset</code> attribute can be used as:
1456     <pre class="html example">
1457 wakaba 1.21 <code>&lt;meta charset="<var>charset-name</var>"&gt;</code></pre>
1458 wakaba 1.8 ... where <var>charset-name</var> is a name of the character encoding
1459     of the document, such as <code>utf-8</code>.</p>
1460     <p>Values <code>Content-Style-Type</code> and
1461     <code>Content-Script-Type</code> are currently not allowed.</p>
1462     <p>Value <code>Keywords</code> is not allowed. Use
1463     <code>name</code> attribute instead of <code>http-equiv</code>
1464     attribute.</p>
1465     <p>Values <code>Expires</code>, <code>Pragma</code>,
1466     and <code>Cache-Control</code> are not allowed;
1467     use <em>real</em> HTTP header fields for cache control.</p></dd>
1468     </dl>
1469     </div>
1470 wakaba 1.2
1471 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="enumerated:invalid:http-equiv:content-type"><h3>Character encoding declaration syntax
1472 wakaba 1.21 <code class="html bad example">&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<var>charset-name</var>"&gt;</code>
1473 wakaba 1.13 is obsolete.</h3>
1474 wakaba 1.15 <p>Old long character encoding declaration syntax
1475 wakaba 1.21 <code class="html bad example">&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<var>charset-name</var>"&gt;</code>
1476 wakaba 1.13 is in use. The document is non‐conforming.</p>
1477    
1478 wakaba 1.15 <p>The new character encoding declaration syntax is:
1479 wakaba 1.14 <pre class="html example">
1480 wakaba 1.21 <code>&lt;meta charset="<var>charset-name</var>"&gt;</code></pre>
1481 wakaba 1.13 </p>
1482     </div>
1483    
1484 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="enumerated:non-conforming"><h3>Attribute value <code><var>{@}</var></code>
1485 wakaba 1.26 is not allowed.</h3></div>
1486    
1487 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="duplicate-http-equiv"><h3>There is another pragma
1488 wakaba 1.26 <code><var>{value}</var></code>.</h3></div>
1489    
1490 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="duplicate-ID"><h3>This identifier has already been
1491 wakaba 1.3 assigned to another element.</h3></div>
1492    
1493 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="duplicate-token"><h3>The token <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1494 wakaba 1.26 appears in the attribute value twice.</h3></div>
1495    
1496 wakaba 1.36 <div class="section" id="empty-attribute-value"><h3>The attribute value is empty.</h3></div>
1497    
1498     <div class="section" id="empty-style-sheet-title"><h3>The value of the <code>title</code> attribute
1499     is empty.</h3>
1500     <p>The <code>title</code> attribute value of the <code>link</code>
1501     element that defines an alternate style sheet is an empty value.</p>
1502    
1503     <p>A <code>link</code> element whose <code>rel</code> attribute
1504     is <code>alternate stylesheet</code> defines an alternate style sheet.
1505     An alternate style sheet must be associated with a name using the
1506     <code>title</code> attribute. The name cannot be empty.</p>
1507     </div>
1508 wakaba 1.26
1509 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="float:out-of-range"><h3>The specified value is out of range.</h3></div>
1510 wakaba 1.26
1511 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="float:syntax-error"><h3>The attribute value is not a real
1512 wakaba 1.26 number.</h3></div>
1513    
1514 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="fragment-points-itself"><h3>A fragment identifier references the element
1515 wakaba 1.26 itself.</h3></div>
1516    
1517 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="fragment-points-nothing"><h3>A fragment identifier references no
1518 wakaba 1.26 node.</h3></div>
1519    
1520 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="hashref:syntax-error"><h3>A hash−name reference must start with a
1521 wakaba 1.26 <code>#</code> character.</h3></div>
1522    
1523 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="id-ne-name"><h3>The <code>id</code> attribute value is
1524 wakaba 1.26 different from the <code>name</code> attribute value.</h3></div>
1525    
1526 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="integer:syntax-error"><h3>The attribute value is not an integer.</h3></div>
1527 wakaba 1.26
1528 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="link-type:bad-context"><h3>The link type <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1529 wakaba 1.4 cannot be specified for this element.</h3>
1530     <p>The specified link type cannot be used for the element.
1531     The document is non-conforming.</p>
1532    
1533     <p>Link types are associated with limited set of elements.
1534     They cannot be used with other elements.</p>
1535    
1536     <p>For example, link type <code>bookmark</code>
1537     can be used with <code>a</code> or <code>area</code> element,
1538     while it cannot be used with <code>link</code> element.</p>
1539     </div>
1540    
1541 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="invalid-attribute-value"><h3>Attribute value <code><var>{@}</var></code>
1542 wakaba 1.26 is not an allowed value.</h3></div>
1543    
1544 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="length:syntax-error"><h3>The attribute value is not a length
1545 wakaba 1.26 value.</h3></div>
1546    
1547 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="link-type:non-conforming"><h3>The link type <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1548 wakaba 1.4 is non-conforming.</h3>
1549 wakaba 1.6 <p>The specified link type is non-conforming, and therefore
1550     the document is non-conforming.</p>
1551    
1552 wakaba 1.11 <dl class="switch">
1553 wakaba 1.6 <dt>Link type <code>contents</code></dt>
1554     <dd>Use link type <code>index</code>.</dd>
1555     <dt>Link type <code>copyright</code></dt>
1556     <dd>Use link type <code>license</code>.</dd>
1557     <dt>Link type <code>home</code></dt>
1558     <dd>Use link type <code>index</code>.</dd>
1559 wakaba 1.11 <dt>Link type <code>previous</code></dt>
1560     <dd>Use link type <code>prev</code>.</dd>
1561 wakaba 1.6 <dt>Link type <code>start</code></dt>
1562     <dd>Use link type <code>first</code>.</dd>
1563 wakaba 1.11 <dt>Link type <code>toc</code> or <code>top</code></dt>
1564 wakaba 1.6 <dd>Use link type <code>index</code>.</dd>
1565     </dl>
1566     </div>
1567    
1568 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="meta-content-type-syntax-error"><h3>The specified value is not a valid as a long
1569 wakaba 1.26 character encoding declaration.</h3></div>
1570    
1571 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="mismatched-charset-name"><h3>The specified character encoding name
1572 wakaba 1.26 <code><var>{value}</var></code> is different from the actual document
1573     character encoding <code><var>{text}</var></code>.</h3>
1574 wakaba 1.16 <p>The specified character encoding name is different from
1575     the character encoding of the document. The document
1576     is non‐conforming.</p>
1577     </div>
1578    
1579 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="mismatched-charset-name-not-checked"><h3>Whether the specified character encoding name
1580 wakaba 1.26 <code><var>{value}</var></code> matches to the actual character encoding
1581     name cannot be checked since the input is not a byte stream.</h3></div>
1582    
1583 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="mode:syntax-error"><h3>The attribute value is not a valid mode
1584 wakaba 1.26 name.</h3></div>
1585    
1586 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="nninteger:out-of-range"><h3>The specified value is out of range.</h3></div>
1587 wakaba 1.26
1588 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="nninteger:syntax-error"><h3>The attribute value is not a non‐negative
1589 wakaba 1.26 integer.</h3></div>
1590    
1591 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-referenced-map"><h3>The <code>usemap</code> attribute references
1592 wakaba 1.26 no image map.</h3></div>
1593    
1594 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-referenced-menu"><h3>The <code>contextmenu</code> attribute references
1595 wakaba 1.26 no menu.</h3></div>
1596    
1597 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-referenced-header-cell"><h3>There is no table header cell whose <code>id</code>
1598 wakaba 1.27 is <code><var>{value}</var></code> in the same table.</h3></div>
1599    
1600 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="refresh:syntax-error"><h3>the specified value is not a valid as part
1601 wakaba 1.26 of a <code>Refresh</code> pragma.</h3></div>
1602    
1603 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="repeat:syntax-error"><h3>The attribute value is not an integer or
1604 wakaba 1.26 a string <code>template</code>.</h3></div>
1605    
1606 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="reserved-browsing-context-name"><h3>Browsing context name
1607 wakaba 1.6 <code><var>{@}</var></code> is reserved.</h3>
1608     <p>The specified browsing context name is reserved.
1609     The document is non-conforming.</p>
1610 wakaba 1.4
1611 wakaba 1.6 <p>Names of browsing contexts starting with <code>_</code>
1612     (<code>U+005F</code> <code class="charname">LOW LINE</code>)
1613     are reserved so that it must not be used.</p>
1614    
1615     <p>Old version of HTML, non-HTML markup languages, and
1616     Web browsers define or implements special reserved
1617     browsing context names <code>_blank</code>,
1618     <code>_main</code>, and <code>_replace</code>.
1619     However, they are <em>not</em> conforming attribute values.</p>
1620 wakaba 1.4 </div>
1621    
1622 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="Reserved-Prefixes-and-Namespace-Names:Name"><h3>Namespace name <code><var>{text}</var></code>
1623 wakaba 1.26 is reserved and cannot be used for an arbitrary prefix.</h3></div>
1624 wakaba 1.2
1625 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="Reserved-Prefixes-and-Namespace-Names:Prefix"><h3>Namespace prefix <code><var>{text}</var></code>
1626 wakaba 1.26 is reserved and cannot be used for an arbitrary namespace name.</h3></div>
1627 wakaba 1.4
1628 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="link-type:proposed"><h3>Link type <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1629 wakaba 1.4 is proposed but not accepted yet; it <em>should not</em> be
1630     used until it has been accepted.</h3>
1631     <p>The link type is in the <i>proposed</i> status; it
1632     <em>should not</em> be used until it has been
1633     accepted.</p>
1634    
1635     <p><strong>Warning</strong>: The data served to the
1636     conforming checker might be out of date; it might have already
1637 wakaba 1.11 been accepted or rejected. The document might or might not be
1638     conforming depending on the status. See WHATWG Wiki
1639 wakaba 1.4 for the latest information.</p>
1640     </div>
1641    
1642 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="sizes:syntax-error"><h3>The specified value <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1643 wakaba 1.26 is not a valid value.</h3></div>
1644    
1645 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="space-in-ID"><h3>White space characters are not allowed
1646 wakaba 1.26 in the <code>id</code> attribute.</h3></div>
1647    
1648 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="template:not-template"><h3>The node referenced by the <code>template</code>
1649 wakaba 1.26 attribute is not a template.</h3></div>
1650    
1651 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="window-name:empty"><h3>Browsing context name must not be empty.</h3></div>
1652 wakaba 1.26
1653 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="window-name:reserved"><h3>Browsing context name
1654 wakaba 1.26 <code><var>{value}</var></code> is reserved.</h3></div>
1655    
1656 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="word-not-allowed"><h3>The word <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not
1657 wakaba 1.26 allowed in this attribute.</h3></div>
1658    
1659 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="XML-1.0-NCName:syntax-error"><h3>The specified value is not a legal XML Namespaces
1660 wakaba 1.27 1.0 <code>NCName</code>.</h3></div>
1661    
1662 wakaba 1.35 <div class="section" id="xml:lang-ne-lang"><h3>The value of the <code>xml:lang</code> attribute
1663     is different from the value of the <code>lang</code> attribute.</h3>
1664     <p>The value of the <code>xml:lang</code> attribute (either the
1665     <code>lang</code> attribute in the <code>xml</code> (i.e.
1666     <code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code>) namespace, or
1667     the <code>xml:lang</code> attribute in no namespace) for the element has
1668     different value than that of the <code>lang</code> attribute in no
1669     namespace.</p>
1670    
1671     <p>For historical reason, there are two attributes applicable to HTML
1672     elements to specify language information of an element: <code>lang</code>
1673     and <code>xml:lang</code>. In HTML documents, only <code>lang</code>
1674     attribute in no namespace is allowed and take effect; the
1675     <code>xml:lang</code> attribute in no namespace is ignored in HTML
1676     documents. In XHTML documents, both <code>lang</code> and
1677     <code>xml:lang</code> attributes are allowed.</p>
1678    
1679     <p>In general, <em>only the <code>lang</code> attribute</em> need to be
1680     specified for an element.</p>
1681    
1682     <p>If both <code>lang</code> and <code>xml:lang</code> attributes are
1683     specified on the same element, their values must be the same value.</p>
1684     </div>
1685    
1686 wakaba 1.4 </section>
1687    
1688 wakaba 1.2 <section id="table-model-errors">
1689     <h2>Table Model Errors</h2>
1690    
1691 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="cell-overlapping"><h3>Cell slot (<var>{text}</var>) is filled by
1692 wakaba 1.27 multiple cells.</h3></div>
1693    
1694 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="colspan-creates-column-with-no-anchored-cell"><h3>This <code>colspan</code> attribute
1695 wakaba 1.3 results in creating a table column that does not contain
1696     any cell anchored to it.</h3></div>
1697    
1698 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="column-with-no-anchored-cell"><h3>This column has no anchored cell.</h3></div>
1699 wakaba 1.27
1700 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="table:no-cell-in-last-row"><h3>The table has no cell (<code>td</code> or
1701 wakaba 1.2 <code>th</code>) in the last row.</h3></div>
1702    
1703 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="table:rowspan-extends-table"><h3>This <code>rowspan</code> attribute
1704 wakaba 1.6 results in creating a table row that does not contain
1705     any cell anchored to it.</h3>
1706     <p>The <code>rowspan</code> attribute value of the cell
1707     is so specified that it extends a table in the row axis.
1708     However, the extended row does not contain any cell by itself.
1709     The document is non-conforming.</p>
1710    
1711     <p>For example, the table below is non-conforming:
1712 wakaba 1.14 <pre class="html bad example">
1713 wakaba 1.6 <code>&lt;table&gt;
1714     &lt;tbody&gt;
1715     &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td rowspan=2&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
1716     &lt;/tbody&gt;
1717     &lt;/table&gt;</code></pre>
1718 wakaba 1.9 ... since the second row contains only
1719     a cell that spans between first and second rows.</p>
1720 wakaba 1.6 </div>
1721    
1722 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="row-with-no-anchored-cell"><h3>This row has no anchored cell.</h3></div>
1723 wakaba 1.27
1724 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="rowspan-creates-row-with-no-anchored-cell"><h3>This <code>rowspan</code> attribute
1725 wakaba 1.27 results in creating a table row that does not contain
1726     any cell anchored to it.</h3></div>
1727    
1728    
1729 wakaba 1.2 </section>
1730    
1731     <section id="imt-warnings">
1732 wakaba 1.26 <h2>Internet Media Type Errors</h2>
1733    
1734 wakaba 1.33 <div class="section" id="boundary:syntax-error"><h3>The specified value is not a valid value
1735     as a multipart boundary.</h3></div>
1736    
1737     <div class="section" id="e4x:syntax-error"><h3>The specified value is not a valid value
1738     for the attribute <code>e4x</code>.</h3></div>
1739    
1740     <div class="section" id="IMT:attribute-syntax-error"><h3>The specified value,
1741     <code><var>{value}</var></code>, is syntactically not a valid
1742     attribute name.</h3></div>
1743    
1744 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="IMT:composite"><h3>The specified media type is a composite
1745 wakaba 1.27 type, which is not allowed in this context.</h3></div>
1746    
1747 wakaba 1.33 <div class="section" id="IMT:limited-use-subtype"><h3>An Internet Media Type whose intended usage
1748     is limited use, <code><var>{value}</var></code> is used.</h3></div>
1749    
1750 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="IMT:syntax-error"><h3>The specified value is not an Internet Media
1751 wakaba 1.26 Type.</h3></div>
1752 wakaba 1.1
1753 wakaba 1.33 <div class="section" id="IMT:obsolete-parameter"><h3>An obsolete parameter
1754     <code><var>{value}</var></code> is used.</h3></div>
1755    
1756     <div class="section" id="IMT:obsolete-subtype"><h3>An obsolete Internet Media Type
1757 wakaba 1.36 <code><var>{value}</var></code> is used.</h3>
1758     <p>The specified Internet Media Type is registered with its intended
1759     usage as <i>OBSOLETE</i>.</p>
1760    
1761     <dl class="swtich">
1762     <dt>Media type <code>text/ecmascript</code></dt>
1763     <dd>Media type <code>text/ecmascript</code> is obsoleted in
1764     favor of <code>application/ecmascript</code>. Note that
1765     <em><code>text/javascript</code></em> would be the better alternative
1766     in many cases.</dd>
1767     <dt>Media type <code>text/javascript</code></dt>
1768     <dd>Media type <code>text/javascript</code> is obsoleted by
1769     <abbr>IETF</abbr> with backward incompatible alternate
1770     <code>application/javascript</code> for architectural
1771     purity.<!-- @@ ref? --> Those who prefer reality to academic
1772     purity <em>may ignore</em> this warning.</dd>
1773     </dl>
1774     </div>
1775 wakaba 1.33
1776     <div class="section" id="IMT:parameter-missing"><h3>Parameter <code><var>{text}</var></code> have to
1777     be specified for the Internet Media Type
1778     <code><var>{value}</var></code>.</h3></div>
1779    
1780     <div class="section" id="IMT:parameter-not-allowed"><h3>Parameter <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not
1781     allowed for this Internet Media Type.</h3></div>
1782    
1783     <div class="section" id="IMT:private-subtype"><h3>Use of a private Internet Media Type
1784     <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not encouraged.</h3></div>
1785 wakaba 1.2
1786 wakaba 1.33 <div class="section" id="IMT:private-type"><h3>Use of a private type
1787     <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not encouraged.</h3></div>
1788 wakaba 1.2
1789 wakaba 1.33 <div class="section" id="IMT:subtype-syntax-error"><h3>Value <code><var>{value}</var></code> is
1790     syntactically not a valid subtype value of an Internet Media Type.</h3></div>
1791    
1792     <div class="section" id="IMT:type-syntax-error"><h3>Value <code><var>{value}</var></code> is
1793     syntactically not a valid type.</h3></div>
1794    
1795     <div class="section" id="IMT:unknown-parameter"><h3>An unknown parameter <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1796     is used. The conformance checker cannot determine whether use of this
1797     parameter is valid or not.</h3></div>
1798    
1799     <div class="section" id="IMT:unknown-subtype"><h3>An unknown Internet Media Type
1800     <code><var>{value}</var></code> is used. At the time of the update of
1801     the conformance checker's Internet Media Type database, the subtype is
1802     not reigstered to the IANA registry. The subtype, however, might be
1803     registerd to the IANA registry thereafter. Please consult the IANA
1804     registry.</h3></div>
1805    
1806     <div class="section" id="IMT:unregistered-subtype"><h3>Use of an Internet Media Type
1807     <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not encouraged since it is not
1808     part of the IANA registry.</h3></div>
1809    
1810     <div class="section" id="IMT:unregistered-type"><h3>Use of a type
1811     <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not encouraged since it is not
1812     a standardized type.</h3></div>
1813 wakaba 1.2
1814 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="not-IMT"><h3>A value that is not an Internet Media Type
1815 wakaba 1.27 is not allowed here.</h3></div>
1816    
1817 wakaba 1.2 </section>
1818    
1819     <section id="uri-errors">
1820 wakaba 1.28 <h2>URL Errors</h2>
1821 wakaba 1.2
1822 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="syntax-error:iri3987"><h3>The specified value is syntactically not an
1823 wakaba 1.28 IRI.</h3></div>
1824    
1825 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="syntax-error:iriref3987"><h3>The specified value is syntactically not an IRI
1826 wakaba 1.6 reference.</h3>
1827     <p>The specified value does not satisfy the syntactical requirements
1828     for IRI references. The document is non-conforming.</p>
1829    
1830     <p>Possible causes:
1831     <ul>
1832     <li>The string might contain one or more white space characters.
1833     Especially, the <code> </code> (<code>U+0020</code>
1834     <code class="charname">SPACE</code>) character cannot be
1835     used in IRI references.</li>
1836     </ul>
1837     </p>
1838     </div>
1839 wakaba 1.2
1840 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="syntax-error:rdfuriref"><h3>The specified value is syntactically not an RDF
1841 wakaba 1.28 URI reference.</h3></div>
1842    
1843 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="syntax-error:uri2396"><h3>The specified value is syntactically not a
1844 wakaba 1.28 URI according to RFC 2396.</h3></div>
1845    
1846 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="syntax-error:uri3986"><h3>The specified value is syntactically not a
1847 wakaba 1.28 URI.</h3></div>
1848    
1849 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:address-format"><h3>URL host address format
1850 wakaba 1.35 <code><var>{text}</var></code> is not defined.</h3></div>
1851 wakaba 1.2
1852 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:default-port"><h3>Default port number should be omitted.</h3></div>
1853 wakaba 1.3
1854 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:dot-segment"><h3>A dot-segment (<code>.</code> or
1855 wakaba 1.9 <code>..</code>) occurs in an absolute reference.</h3>
1856 wakaba 1.3 <p>Dot-segment (<code>.</code> or <code>..</code>) should
1857     not occur in an absolute reference.</p>
1858    
1859     <p>In relative references, dot-segments are used to represent
1860     the current (<code>.</code>) or the parent (<code>..</code>)
1861     hierarchy of the path. Though they are also allowed
1862     in absolute references, it should be resolved to the
1863     canonical form before it has been published.</p>
1864     </div>
1865 wakaba 1.2
1866 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:empty-host"><h3>The host component of the URL is empty.</h3></div>
1867 wakaba 1.28
1868 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:empty-path"><h3>The URL does not end with
1869 wakaba 1.28 a <code>/</code> character.</h3></div>
1870    
1871 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:empty-port"><h3>The port component of the URL is empty.</h3></div>
1872 wakaba 1.1
1873 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL-fragment-not-allowed"><h3>The fragment component of the URL is not
1874 wakaba 1.29 allowed.</h3></div>
1875    
1876 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:long-host"><h3>The host component of the URL
1877 wakaba 1.28 is too long.</h3></div>
1878    
1879 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:lowercase-hexadecimal-digit"><h3>A lowercase hexadecimal digit is used
1880 wakaba 1.9 in percent-encoding.</h3>
1881 wakaba 1.5 <p>The hexadecimal digit in percent-encoding string in the IRI
1882 wakaba 1.4 is in lowercase. Though the IRI <em>is</em> conforming,
1883     it should be in uppercase.</p>
1884     </div>
1885    
1886 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:non-DNS-host"><h3>The host component of the URL
1887 wakaba 1.28 is not a DNS host name.</h3></div>
1888    
1889 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:non-UTF-8-host"><h3>The host component of the URL
1890 wakaba 1.28 is not encoded in UTF-8.</h3></div>
1891    
1892 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:password"><h3>Password should not be included in a URL
1893 wakaba 1.28 for the security.</h3></div>
1894    
1895 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:percent-encoded-unreserved"><h3>An unreserved character is
1896 wakaba 1.4 percent-encoded.</h3>
1897     <p>An unreserved character is percent-encoded in the IRI.
1898     Though it <em>is</em> conforming, it should be in the
1899     decoded (or bare) form.</p>
1900     </div>
1901    
1902 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:uppercase-host"><h3>The host <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1903 wakaba 1.28 should be spelt in lowercase.</h3></div>
1904    
1905 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="URL:uppercase-scheme-name"><h3>URL scheme name is in uppercase.</h3>
1906 wakaba 1.6 <p>The scheme part of the IRI is written in uppercase letter.</p>
1907    
1908     <p>Uppercase scheme names are not required to be processed
1909     correctly.</p>
1910     <!-- @@
1911     RFC 3986 3.1.
1912     > Although schemes are case-
1913     insensitive, the canonical form is lowercase and documents that
1914     specify schemes must do so with lowercase letters.
1915    
1916     > An implementation ... should only produce lowercase scheme names for
1917     consistency.
1918     -->
1919     </div>
1920    
1921 wakaba 1.1 </section>
1922    
1923 wakaba 1.29 <section id="mq-errors">
1924     <h2>Media Query Errors</h2>
1925    
1926 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="mq-syntax-error"><h3>The specified value has a syntax error as a
1927 wakaba 1.29 media query.</h3></div>
1928    
1929 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unknown-media-type"><h3>Media type <code><var>{value}</var></code> is
1930 wakaba 1.29 not supported by the conformance checker.</h3></div>
1931    
1932     </section>
1933    
1934     <section id="selectors-errors">
1935     <h2>Selectors Errors</h2>
1936    
1937 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="an+b-not-closed"><h3>Argument list of the pseudo-class is
1938 wakaba 1.29 not closed by a <code>)</code> character.</h3></div>
1939    
1940 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="ab+b-not-integer"><h3>Numbers in the argument
1941 wakaba 1.29 <code><var>a</var>n+<var>b</var></code> have to be integers.</h3></div>
1942    
1943 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="an+b-syntax-error"><h3>Argument <code><var>a</var>n+<var>b</var></code> is
1944 wakaba 1.29 syntactically incorrect.</h3></div>
1945    
1946 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="attr-selector-not-closed"><h3>Attribute selector is not closed by
1947 wakaba 1.29 a <code>]</code> character.</h3></div>
1948    
1949 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="lang-selector-not-closed"><h3>Argument list of the <code>:lang</code>
1950 wakaba 1.29 selector is not closed by a <code>)</code> character.</h3></div>
1951    
1952 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="namespace-prefix:not-declared"><h3>Namespace prefix <code><var>{value}</var></code>
1953 wakaba 1.29 is not declared.</h3></div>
1954    
1955 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-attr-local-name"><h3>Attribute local name is missing.</h3></div>
1956 wakaba 1.29
1957 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-attr-match"><h3>Attribute matching operator (e.g.
1958 wakaba 1.29 <code>=</code>) is missing.</h3></div>
1959    
1960 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-attr-name"><h3>Attribute name is missing.</h3></div>
1961 wakaba 1.29
1962 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-attr-namespace-separator"><h3>Attribute namespace wildcard <code>*</code>
1963 wakaba 1.29 is not followed by a <code>|</code> character.</h3></div>
1964    
1965 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-attr-value"><h3>Attribute value is missing.</h3></div>
1966 wakaba 1.29
1967 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-class-name-selector"><h3>Class name is missing.</h3></div>
1968 wakaba 1.29
1969 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-combinator"><h3>Combinator is missing.</h3></div>
1970 wakaba 1.29
1971 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-contains-string"><h3>No string is specified in the argument
1972 wakaba 1.29 list of the <code>:-manakai-contains</code> pseudo-class
1973     selector.</h3></div>
1974    
1975 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-lang-tag"><h3>Language tag argument is missing.</h3></div>
1976 wakaba 1.29
1977 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-local-name-selector"><h3>Local name part of the type selector (or
1978 wakaba 1.29 <code>*</code> for the universal selector) is missing.</h3></div>
1979    
1980 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-pseudo-class-name"><h3>Pseudo-class name is missing.</h3></div>
1981 wakaba 1.29
1982 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-pseudo-element-name"><h3>Pseudo-element name is missing.</h3></div>
1983 wakaba 1.29
1984 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-sss"><h3>Sequence of simple selectors is
1985 wakaba 1.29 expected.</h3></div>
1986    
1987 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="not-not-closed"><h3>Argument list of the <code>:not</code> selector
1988 wakaba 1.29 is not closed by a <code>)</code> character.</h3></div>
1989    
1990 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="ss-after-pseudo-element"><h3>Simple selector is not allowed after a
1991 wakaba 1.29 pseudo element.</h3></div>
1992    
1993 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unknown-pseudo-class"><h3>Pseudo-class <code>:<var>{value}</var></code>
1994 wakaba 1.29 is not supported by the conformance checker.</h3></div>
1995    
1996 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unknown-pseudo-element"><h3>Pseudo-element <code>::<var>{value}</var></code>
1997 wakaba 1.29 is not supported by the conformance checker.</h3></div>
1998    
1999     </section>
2000    
2001     <section id="css-errors">
2002     <h2>CSS Errors</h2>
2003    
2004 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="at-rule-not-allowed"><h3>An <code>@<var>{text}</var></code> rule is not
2005 wakaba 1.29 allowed here.</h3></div>
2006    
2007 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="at-rule-syntax-error"><h3>The <code>@<var>{text}</var></code> rule is
2008 wakaba 1.29 syntactically incorrect.</h3></div>
2009    
2010 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="block-not-closed"><h3>Block is not closed before the end of
2011 wakaba 1.29 file.</h3></div>
2012    
2013 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="CSS-duplication"><h3>Component <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code> is
2014 wakaba 1.29 already specified.</h3></div>
2015    
2016 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="CSS-cursor-hand"><h3>Value <code>hand</code> is not valid as
2017 wakaba 1.30 <code>&lt;'cursor'&gt;</code>.</h3></div>
2018    
2019 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="CSS-syntax-error"><h3>Specified value is syntactically not a correct
2020 wakaba 1.29 <code>&lt;<var>{text}</var>&gt;</code>.</h3></div>
2021    
2022 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-declaration-block"><h3>No declaration block is found after a group of
2023 wakaba 1.29 selectors.</h3></div>
2024    
2025 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-property-colon"><h3>A <code>:</code> character is missing after
2026 wakaba 1.29 a property name.</h3></div>
2027    
2028 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-property-name"><h3>Property name is expected.</h3></div>
2029 wakaba 1.29
2030 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-property-semicolon"><h3>A <code>;</code> character is missing at the
2031 wakaba 1.29 end of the property.</h3></div>
2032    
2033 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="priority-syntax-error"><h3>Priority part of the declaration is syntactically
2034 wakaba 1.29 incorrect.</h3></div>
2035    
2036 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unknown-at-rule"><h3>The <code>@<var>{value}</var></code> rule is
2037 wakaba 1.29 not supported by the conformance checker.</h3></div>
2038    
2039 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unknown-property"><h3>Property <code><var>{value}</var></code> is
2040 wakaba 1.29 not supported by the conformance checker.</h3></div>
2041    
2042     </section>
2043    
2044 wakaba 1.11 <section id="cache-manifest-errors">
2045     <h2>Cache Manifest Errors</h2>
2046    
2047 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="both-in-entries-and-whitelist"><h3>This URL is found both in the explicit or
2048 wakaba 1.29 fallback entries and in the online whitelist.</h3></div>
2049    
2050 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="different-origin-from-manifest"><h3>The specified URL has different origin from
2051 wakaba 1.29 the manifest.</h3></div>
2052    
2053 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="different-scheme-from-manifest"><h3>The scheme component of the URL is
2054 wakaba 1.29 different from that of the manifest URL. The URL is ignored.</h3></div>
2055    
2056 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="duplicate-oc-namespace"><h3>This oppotunistic caching namespace is already
2057 wakaba 1.29 specified.</h3></div>
2058    
2059 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="no-fallback-entry-URL"><h3>Fallback entry URL is missing.</h3></div>
2060 wakaba 1.29
2061 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="not-manifest"><h3>This document is not a cache manifest.</h3>
2062 wakaba 1.11 <p>The specified document is <em>not</em> a cache manifest.
2063     The document is non-conforming.</p>
2064    
2065     <p>An entity labeled as Internet media type
2066     <code>text/cache-manifest</code> must contain a cache manifest.</p>
2067    
2068     <p>A cache manifest must start with a line whose content is
2069 wakaba 1.14 <code class="manifest example">CACHE MANIFEST</code>
2070     (exactly one space character between
2071 wakaba 1.11 <code>CACHE</code> and <code>MANIFEST</code>).</p>
2072     </div>
2073 wakaba 1.29
2074 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="same-as-manifest-URL"><h3>This URL is same as the manifest URL.</h3></div>
2075 wakaba 1.29
2076 wakaba 1.11 </section>
2077    
2078 wakaba 1.17 <section id="information">
2079     <h2>Stability Information</h2>
2080    
2081 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="deprecated:attr"><h3>This attribute is deprecated.</h3></div>
2082 wakaba 1.26
2083 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="deprecated:element"><h3>This element is deprecated.</h3></div>
2084 wakaba 1.26
2085 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="status:cr:element"><h3>This element is in the
2086 wakaba 1.19 <strong>call for implementation</strong> stage.</h3>
2087     <p>The element is in the call for implementation stage.</p>
2088 wakaba 1.17
2089     <p>Usually, using the element is safe. However, it is a new feature
2090     so that it might not be implemented correctly. If it is found that
2091     the feature is hard or impossible to implement, the feature
2092     might be revised, or in some case it might be dropped.</p>
2093    
2094 wakaba 1.20 <p>Elements defined by Atom 1.0 (IETF Proposed Standard), and XBL 2.0
2095     (W3C Candidate Recommendation) belong to this class.</p>
2096 wakaba 1.17 </div>
2097    
2098 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="status:lc:element"><h3>This element is in the <strong>last
2099 wakaba 1.18 call for comments</strong> stage.</h3>
2100     <p>The element is in the last call for comments stage.</p>
2101 wakaba 1.17
2102     <p>The element is relatively mature, though the standardization
2103     is not done yet. It may be used for experiments. Since it is a new
2104     feature, it might not be implemented correctly or at all. If it is
2105     found that the feature is hard or impossible to implement, the feature
2106     might be revised or might be dropped.</p>
2107    
2108     <p>Elements defined by Web Forms 2.0 as well as some elements
2109     defined by HTML5 belong to this class.</p>
2110     </div>
2111    
2112 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="status:wd:element"><h3>This element is documented in a <strong>working
2113 wakaba 1.17 draft</strong>.</h3>
2114     <p>The element is documented in a working or editor's draft
2115     and not yet completed.</p>
2116    
2117     <p>The element should not be used for any practical purpose.
2118     The feature might be drastically changed later or might be
2119     entirely removed.</p>
2120    
2121     <p>Most of new elements defined by HTML5 belong to this class.</p>
2122     </div>
2123    
2124 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="status:non-standard:element"><h3>This element is <strong>not part of any
2125 wakaba 1.19 standard</strong> the conformance checker knows.</h3>
2126     <p>The element is not part of any standard or draft the conformance
2127     checker is aware of.</p>
2128 wakaba 1.17
2129 wakaba 1.19 <p>The element should not be used for any practical purpose unless
2130     there is really a standard that defines the element.</p>
2131 wakaba 1.17 </div>
2132 wakaba 1.26
2133 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="status:cr:attr"><h3>This attribute is in the
2134 wakaba 1.26 <strong>call for implementation</strong> stage.</h3>
2135     <p>The attribute is in the call for implementation stage.</p>
2136    
2137     <p>Usually, using the attribute is safe. However, it is a new feature
2138     so that it might not be implemented correctly. If it is found that
2139     the feature is hard or impossible to implement, the feature
2140     might be revised, or in some case it might be dropped.</p>
2141     </div>
2142    
2143 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="status:lc:attr"><h3>This attribute is in the <strong>last
2144 wakaba 1.26 call for comments</strong> stage.</h3>
2145     <p>The attribute is in the last call for comments stage.</p>
2146    
2147     <p>The attribute is relatively mature, though the standardization
2148     is not done yet. It may be used for experiments. Since it is a new
2149     feature, it might not be implemented correctly or at all. If it is
2150     found that the feature is hard or impossible to implement, the feature
2151     might be revised or might be dropped.</p>
2152     </div>
2153    
2154 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="status:wd:attr"><h3>This attribute is documented in a <strong>working
2155 wakaba 1.26 draft</strong>.</h3>
2156     <p>The attribute is documented in a working or editor's draft
2157     and not yet completed.</p>
2158    
2159     <p>The attribute should not be used for any practical purpose.
2160     The feature might be drastically changed later or might be
2161     entirely removed.</p>
2162     </div>
2163    
2164 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="status:non-standard:attr"><h3>This attribute is <strong>not part of any
2165 wakaba 1.26 standard</strong> the conformance checker knows.</h3>
2166     <p>The attribute is not part of any standard or draft the conformance
2167     checker is aware of.</p>
2168    
2169     <p>The attribute should not be used for any practical purpose unless
2170     there is really a standard that defines the attribute.</p>
2171     </div>
2172 wakaba 1.17 </section>
2173    
2174 wakaba 1.28 <section id="langtag-errors">
2175     <h2>Language Tag Errors</h2>
2176    
2177 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:extension:duplication"><h3>There is another extension subtag
2178 wakaba 1.28 <code><var>{value}</var></code>.</h3></div>
2179    
2180 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:illegal"><h3>Subtag <code><var>{value}</var></code> is
2181 wakaba 1.28 syntactically invalid.</h3></div>
2182    
2183 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:language:case"><h3>It is a good practice to represent ISO 639-1
2184 wakaba 1.28 language code <code><var>{value}</var></code> in lowercase.</h3></div>
2185    
2186 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:language:mul"><h3>Langauge tag <code>mul</code> should not be
2187 wakaba 1.28 used.</h3></div>
2188    
2189 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:language:nosemantics"><h3>No semantics is defined for language subtag
2190 wakaba 1.28 <code><var>{value}</var></code>.</h3></div>
2191    
2192 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:language:syntax"><h3>The language subtag <code><var>{value}</var></code>
2193 wakaba 1.28 is syntactically invalid.</h3></div>
2194    
2195 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:language:und"><h3>Langauge tag <code>und</code> should not be
2196 wakaba 1.28 used.</h3></div>
2197    
2198 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:private"><h3>It would be better if a private use language
2199 wakaba 1.28 tag (<code><var>{value}</var></code>) is not used.</h3></div>
2200    
2201 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:privateuse:syntax"><h3>Private use subtag <code><var>{value}</var></code>
2202 wakaba 1.28 is syntactically invalid.</h3></div>
2203    
2204 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:region:case"><h3>It is a good practice to represent ISO 3166
2205 wakaba 1.28 country code <code><var>{value}</var></code> in uppercase.</h3></div>
2206    
2207 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:region:nosemantics"><h3>No semantics is defined for region subtag
2208 wakaba 1.28 <code><var>{value}</var></code>.</h3></div>
2209    
2210 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="langtag:region:private"><h3>Use of private use country code
2211 wakaba 1.28 <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not allowed.</h3></div>
2212    
2213     </section>
2214    
2215 wakaba 1.27 <section id="rdfxml-errors">
2216     <h2>RDF/XML Errors</h2>
2217    
2218 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="bad-rdf-namespace"><h3>The namespace URI of an element that
2219 wakaba 1.27 represents an RDF concept must be
2220     <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#</code>.</h3></div>
2221    
2222 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="duplicate-rdf-id"><h3>The specified value is already used as an
2223 wakaba 1.27 ID.</h3></div>
2224    
2225 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="duplicate-unqualified-attr"><h3>Both unqualified attribute and namespace‐qualified
2226 wakaba 1.27 RDF attribute are specified, which is not allowed.</h3></div>
2227    
2228 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="parse-type-other"><h3>An invalid value is specified to
2229 wakaba 1.27 the <code>parseType</code> attribute.</h3></div>
2230    
2231 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="second-node-element"><h3>There is another element, such that
2232 wakaba 1.27 this element is not allowed.</h3></div>
2233    
2234 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unqualified-attr"><h3>Unqualified attribute is not allowed.</h3></div>
2235 wakaba 1.27
2236 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unqualified-rdf-attr"><h3>RDF attribute should be
2237 wakaba 1.27 namespace‐qualified.</h3></div>
2238    
2239     </section>
2240    
2241 wakaba 1.1 <section id="unsupported-messages">
2242     <h2><i>Unsupported</i> Messages</h2>
2243    
2244 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unknown-element"><h3>Conformance checking for element
2245 wakaba 1.9 <code><var>{local-name}</var></code> is not supported; <em>it might or
2246     might not be conforming</em>.</h3>
2247     <p>The conformant checker does not support the element.
2248 wakaba 1.1 It cannot determine whether the document is conforming or not.</p>
2249     </div>
2250    
2251 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unknown-attribute"><h3>Conformance checking for attribute
2252 wakaba 1.9 <code><var>{local-name}</var></code> of element
2253     <code><var>{element-local-name}</var></code> is not supported;
2254     <em>it might or might not be conforming</em>.</h3>
2255     <p>The conformant checker does not support the attribute.
2256 wakaba 1.1 It cannot determine whether the document is conforming or not.</p>
2257     </div>
2258    
2259 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="unknown-link-type"><h3>Link type <code><var>{value}</var></code> is not
2260 wakaba 1.4 standardized or registered at the time of the release of the conformance
2261 wakaba 1.9 checker; <em>it is non-conforming unless it now has been
2262 wakaba 1.4 registered</em>.</h3>
2263 wakaba 1.1 <p>The <code>rel</code> attribute is defined as a list of link types.
2264     Some common link types are defined in the HTML5 specification.
2265     Additional link types can be registered to the WHATWG Wiki.
2266     use of any other link type is non-conforming.</p>
2267    
2268     <p>The specified link type is not part of the standard or registry
2269     when the database used by the conformance cheker is created.
2270     The link type might have been added to the registry since then.
2271     In such case it might be conforming. Otherwise, the
2272     document is non-conforming.</p>
2273 wakaba 1.8
2274     <dl>
2275     <dt>Link types <code>shortcut icon</code></dt>
2276     <dd>Link type <code>shortcut</code> is not registered.
2277     Use only <code>icon</code> for linking to so-called favicon.</dd>
2278     </dl>
2279 wakaba 1.1 </div>
2280    
2281 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="event-handler"><h3>Conformance checking for event handler attribute
2282 wakaba 1.4 is not supported; <em>it might or might not be conforming.</em></h3></div>
2283    
2284 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="media-query"><h3>Conformance checking for media query
2285 wakaba 1.4 is not supported; <em>it might or might not be conforming.</em></h3></div>
2286    
2287 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="addr-spec-not-supported"><h3>Conformance checking for an <code>addr-spec</code>
2288 wakaba 1.27 is not supported; <em>it might or might not be conforming.</em></h3></div>
2289    
2290 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="XML-script-lang"><h3>Conformance checking for script
2291 wakaba 1.26 language <code><var>{text}</var></code> is not supported;
2292 wakaba 1.4 <em>it might or might not be conforming.</em></h3></div>
2293    
2294 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="XML-style-lang"><h3>Conformance checking for style
2295 wakaba 1.26 language <code><var>{text}</var></code> is not supported;
2296 wakaba 1.4 <em>it might or might not be conforming.</em></h3></div>
2297    
2298 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="atom|content-not-supported"><h3>Conformance checking for an Atom
2299 wakaba 1.27 <code>content</code> element with <code>type</code>
2300     <code><var>{text}</var></code> is not supported.</h3></div>
2301    
2302 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="help-not-available"><h3>No more information is available.</h3>
2303     <p>No more information is available for this topic.</p>
2304     </div>
2305    
2306 wakaba 1.1 </section>
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2515    
2516 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="Error-level-m"><h3><a href="../error-description#Error-level-m" rel="help"><em class="rfc2119">MUST</em>‐level
2517     error</a></h3>
2518     <p>A violation to a hard requirement of the specification.
2519     The document is non‐conforming.</p>
2520     </div>
2521 wakaba 1.29
2522 wakaba 1.31 <div class="section" id="Error-level-s"><h3><a href="../error-description#Error-level-s" rel="help"><em class="rfc2119">SHOULD</em>‐level
2523     error</a></h3>
2524     <p>A violation to a requirement of the specification.
2525     The violation might be legitimize in some case. Otherwise,
2526     the document is non‐conforming.</p>
2527     </div>
2528    
2529     <div class="section" id="Error-level-w"><h3><a href="../error-description#Error-level-w" rel="help">Warning</a></h3>
2530     <p>A warning is an advice from the conformance checker
2531     to avoid solving a problem in a confusing or possibly wrong way.
2532     It does not affect to the conformance of the document, and
2533     may sometimes be inappropriate.</p>
2534     </div>
2535    
2536     <div class="section" id="Error-level-i"><h3><a href="../error-description#Error-level-i" rel="help">Information</a></h3>
2537     <p>An informational message just provides an additional information
2538     on the feature used in the document or the status of the retrieval
2539     or so on.
2540     It does not affect to the conformance of the document.</p>
2541     </div>
2542    
2543     <div class="section" id="Error-level-u"><h3><a href="../error-description#Error-level-u" rel="help">Not
2544     supported</a></h3>
2545     <p>Some feature that is not supported by the conformance checker
2546     is used in the document.</p>
2547     </div>
2548 wakaba 1.12
2549 wakaba 1.1 <section id="license">
2550     <h2>License of This Document</h2>
2551    
2552 wakaba 1.19 <p>Copyright <time>2007</time>‐<time>2008</time>
2553 wakaba 1.11 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/~wakaba/who?" rel="author" xml:lang="ja">Wakaba</a>
2554     <code class="mail">&lt;<a href="mailto:w@suika.fam.cx">w@suika.fam.cx</a>&gt;</code>.</p>
2555    
2556 wakaba 1.9 <p>This document is free software; you can redistribute it
2557 wakaba 1.1 and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.</p>
2558     </section>
2559    
2560 wakaba 1.36 <!-- $Date: 2008/08/30 16:10:07 $ -->
2561 wakaba 1.1 </body>
2562     </html>

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