lee said:
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
>   <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>  
>   <head>
>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />


thanks lee.  but this has me claiming the file is a form of xhtml,
and not just the straightforward-plain-and-ordinary .html that it is.
(i believe it would run in a 1997 browser.)  what would the lines
look like that would support this type of just-the-basics .html file?

of course, i don't need anything more than the [html] at the top
to get it to actually _work_ in a browser -- any browser -- and work
just fine.  so this is just an exercise in getting the file _validated_,
so that it can pass the "requirement" of getting it posted.


>  
Note that if your file truly _is_ 100% ASCII you could use
>   "utf-8" or "iso-8859-1", or even "windows-1252"
>   in place of "us-ascii", because for values less than 128
>   all three of these encoding methods are identical.

right.  but i would prefer to make the claim as minimal as possible
-- to reflect the actuality of the file -- not as maximal as possible...

-bowerbird

p.s.  as for "tidy", thanks for all your open-source work on it...