[css-d] Can't put “ in a blockquote?

Peter Bradley Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:07:24 -0800

I have some HTML that looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";
>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
        <title>Spanish Intensive - Feedback</title>
        <!-- stylesheet reference goes here -->
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="styles/spanishIntensives.css" />
        <!--[if lt IE 7]>
        <style>
            /* for IE/6 - to prevent double-spacing of leftnav list items*/
            #leftnav ul li a {  
            height : 0;
            }
            #leftnav {
            margin-top: 2em;
            }
        </style>
        <![endif]-->
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="header">
            <img id="logo" src="images/Logo-SI-BIG4b.jpg" alt="Spanish
Intensives logo" title="Spanish Intensives" />
        </div>
        <div id="main">
            <h1>
                 Feedback
            </h1>
            <h4>
                 Here are some comments from students who took our
courses in previous years:
            </h4>
            <img class="imgright" src="images/Grupo-2-1.jpg"
alt="Students and teachers" title="Students and teachers from a previous
course by the entrance tot he Residencia" />
            <blockquote>
                 &#8220;I found the teaching of exceptionally high
standard.&#8221;
            </blockquote>
            <blockquote>
                 &#8220;All sessions focussed and engaging, and good
fun.&#8221;
            </blockquote>


... and so on for 36 quotes.

When I try to validate the page, I get the following error for each
blockquote:

============================================================

/Line x, Column y/: character data is not allowed here.

|                 &#8220*;*some quoted text.&#82|

You have used character data somewhere it is not permitted to appear.
Mistakes that can cause this error include:

    * putting text directly in the body of the document without wrapping
      it in a container element (such as a <p>aragraph</p>), or
    * forgetting to quote an attribute value (where characters such as
      "%" and "/" are common, but cannot appear without surrounding
      quotes), or
    * using XHTML-style self-closing tags (such as <meta ... />) in HTML
      4.01 or earlier. To fix, remove the extra slash ('/') character.
      For more information about the reasons for this, see Empty
      elements in SGML, HTML, XML, and XHTML
      <http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/html/empty.html>.

=============================================================

I don't understand why that is an error.  Isn't a <blockquote> a
container just like a <p> is?  Or am I missing something really simple
(again).

Cheers


Peter

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