Some implementations don't process the HEAD element correctly

Thu Aug 27 01:23:08 UTC 2009

Sorry I was unclear.

I wasn't criticizing openID 2.0 for being silent on where the meta tag  
for X-XRDS.

Only that there is no requirement in the spec to place the other tags  
in the HEAD.

That is the only unfortunate part.

John B.
On 26-Aug-09, at 4:48 PM, Josh Hoyt wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:24 AM, John  
> Bradley<john.bradley at wingaa.com> wrote:
>> Yadis requires the X-XRDS meta tag to be inside the <head> element.
>> OpenID 2.0 is silent on it.
>
> This is a little unfair to the OpenID 2.0 specification, since in
> order for a document to BE valid HTML[1] or XHTML[2], META tags are
> only allowed to be in the HEAD.
>
> It might have been nice for implementers if that relevant bit of
> information were duplicated in the OpenID 2.0 specification, but even
> without it, the requirement is well-specified.
>
> Josh
>
> 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html
> 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html