Hey there. I have a problem with some really simple xhtml.
The following will just pile up the text, and ignore any positioning.
- <!DOCTYPE html
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PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en_EN" xml:lang="en_EN">
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<head>
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<title>UMDB:Unknown?</title>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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<meta name="generator" content="pdftohtml 0.40" />
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<meta name="author" content="Andreas Blom" />
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<meta name="date" content="2007-11-13T06:12:48+00:00" />
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<style type="text/css">
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<!--
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.ft0{vertical-align:top;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.00000px;}
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.ft1{vertical-align:top;font-size:16px;font-family:Times;color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.00000px;}
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-->
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</style>
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</head>
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<body>
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<div style="position:relative;width:892;height:1263;">
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<div style="position:absolute;top:58;left:779"><span class="ft0">1</span></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:111;left:389"><span class="ft1">2007-10-12</span></div>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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The following code is the exact same, except for the header. It is now html4. Due to other factors html4 is not really an option , (or it is at least as complicated to solve the html4-problem.)
- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<title>UMDB:unknown?</title>
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<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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<style type="text/css">
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<!--
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.ft0{vertical-align:top;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.00000px;}
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.ft1{vertical-align:top;font-size:16px;font-family:Times;color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.00000px;}
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-->
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</style>
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</head>
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<body>
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<div style="position:relative;width:892;height:1263;">
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<div style="position:absolute;top:58;left:779"><span class="ft0">1</span></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:111;left:389"><span class="ft1">2007-10-12</span></div>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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Now the html4-version renders correctly in all browers.
BOTH are correct according to http://validator.w3.org but only html4-version works. according to xhtml1 definitions nothing in the code above is wrong. why why why won't it work ?
