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Asked: 2026-05-15T11:34:31+00:00

I have some very simple code below that I can’t get to validate on

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I have some very simple code below that I can’t get to validate on http://validator.w3.org/check and the errors make little sense to me. I’m stumped here can anyone see/understand the issue(s)?

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN" "http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile12.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
    <head> 
        <title>Test Mobile Site</title> 
        <link href="/css/site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="handheld" /> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <div id="test">Why won't you validate for me? :(</div>
    </body> 
</html>

Errors:

Error: Line 18, Column 46: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0x92 0x53 0x20 0x52

Error: Line 69, Column 17: conditional section INCLUDE or IGNORE keyword expected

Error: Line 73, Column 39: xmlParseElementDecl: ‘EMPTY’, ‘ANY’ or ‘(‘ expected

Error: Line 73, Column 39: Content error in the external subset

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well this was my second time trying to figure this out and after doing enough digging I see that in July 2008 the W3C brought out xHTML Basic 1.1 which now supercedes xHTML Mobile Profile 1.2 from the Open Mobile Alliance.

    Moral of the story: You’ll find loads using MP 1.2 DTD in mobile examples across the web but you need to use:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd">

    if you want to validate correctly. Hope this helps someone else not to waste the time I did!

    Reference:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML#XHTML_Basic_and_XHTML-MP

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