W3C html5 meta tags invalid?

[barbara-f]

Dear Mozers,

we get errors  when validating meta tags in html5.

I know it's experimental and not all metas are valid, but how do you handle this? Leave the tags out?

here are some examples:

`…name="DC.title" content="my content...xyc.." /**>**` ```
`>` ```
`>` ```
`>` ```
`>` `>`

I tried to find some information but couldn't. What would you do?

Thanks a lot,
Barbara

[barbara-f]

Thanks a lot Oleg!!

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Did some more research... those aren't valid name values - see this.

---

DC.title = <title>your title here</title>

author =

language =

copyright - no longer valid, just place it into your footer as regular text

reply-to - not sure what this does

cache - must be set via htaccess/server side. and http-equiv is no longer valid

Cheers

[barbara-f]

Hi Oleg,

thank you for your answer.

Here are the errors:

Bad value DC.title for attribute name on element meta: Keyword dc.title is not registered.
Bad value web_author for attribute name on element meta: Keyword web_author is not registered.
Bad value copyright for attribute name on element meta: Keyword copyright is not registered.
Bad value language for attribute name on element meta: Keyword language is not registered.
Bad value reply-to for attribute name on element meta: Keyword reply-to is not registered.
Bad value pragma for attribute http-equiv on element meta.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

What error is given? Those are still valid HTML5 tags - see this.

Only difference I see is self-close in your code.