html 4.0 validation for the site.

["James A. Treacy" <treacy@debian.org>]

I ran the html validator at w3.org on some of the web pages.
Here are the results:

      URI: http://www.debian.org/
      Last modified: Sun Nov 19 23:25:28 2000 
      Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0.3pl1 
      Content length: 13985 
      Character encoding: iso-8859-1 
      Document type: HTML 4.0 Transitional 
   Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser. 
      Line 249, column 4: 
          <P><SMALL>
            ^
      Error: document type does not allow element "P" here; missing one of "APPLET",
      "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag

and

      URI: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
      Last modified: Sun Nov 19 23:36:32 2000 
      Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0.3pl1 
      Content length: 8755 
      Character encoding: iso-8859-1 
      Document type: HTML 4.0 Transitional 

  Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser. 
      Line 52, column 2: 
        <P><DT><A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/stable/";>View the packages  ...
          ^
      Error: document type does not allow element "P" here; assuming missing "DD" start-tag

      Line 77, column 2: 
        <P><DT><A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/";>View the package ...
          ^
      Error: document type does not allow element "P" here; assuming missing "DD" start-tag

and

      URI: http://search.debian.org/ 
      Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0.3pl1 
      Character encoding: iso-8859-1 
      Document type: HTML 4.0 Transitional 
  Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser. 
      Line 63, column 31: 
        <table bgcolor="#eeeee0" order="1" width="100%" summary="">

      Error: there is no attribute "ORDER"

Any comments?

-- 
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org