Lexical error at line 2

**brain_damage** · 07-10-2008, 11:05 PM

i'm getting a "Lexical error at line 2, column 2. Encountered: " " (32), after : "<" " on al pages

here's the code

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

<meta name="rating" content="General">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="5 days">
<title>jeffs heart index</title>

<style type="text/css">
< ! - - (remove spaces)
a { text-decoration: none }
a:link { color: black }
a:visited { color: black }
a:active { color: red }
a:hover{ color: blue}
- - > (remove spaces)
</style>

<style type="text/css">
p.c10 {font-size: 80%; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; word-spacing: 0}
p.c9 {line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; word-spacing: 0}
p.c8 {line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: left; word-spacing: 0}
p.c7 {text-align: left}
p.c6 {word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0}
div.c5 {text-align: center}
span.c4 {color: #FF0000}
p.c3 {text-align: center}
span.c2 {color: #0000FF}
h1.c1 {text-align: center}
</style>

all the rest of the site has past the w3c validator just with the w3c css validator it throw up this error

thanks