Valid (X)HTML, RSS and CSS in this blog

Before I submitted the URI to my RSS-feed to http://www.r-bloggers.com I wanted the HTML-pages as well as the RSS-feed and the CSS-file to be standard compliant. The RSS-feeds and CSS-file were already compliant, but the HTML-pages were not. The error of the HTML-pages were all related to my customized page footer. Strangely enough, the embedded code provided by www.disqus.com does not adhere to XHTML 1.0 strict. Add to that, the fact that I could fix the errors in a few minutes, and it gets really odd.

Here is what disqus provides, taken directly from http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/472097-universal-embed-code

<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
    /* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */
    var disqus_shortname = '<example>'; // Required - Replace example with your forum shortname

    /* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */
    (function() {
        var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
        dsq.src = '//' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';
        (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
    })();
</script>
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There are two missing <p> tags here:

1. within the <noscript> element
2. around the <a> element on the last line.

A correct XHTML 1.0 strict version goes like this:

<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
    /* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */
    var disqus_shortname = '<example>'; // Required - Replace example with your forum shortname

    /* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */
    (function() {
        var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
        dsq.src = '//' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';
        (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
    })();
</script>
<noscript><p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></p></noscript>
<p><a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">blog comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a></p>

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