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Post #238,354
by Yendor
12/16/05 4:56:13 PM
12/16/05 9:48:15 PM
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New Strange errors
Trying to validate [link|http://www.mikevitale.com/|http://www.mikevitale.com/] shows 3 errors. Two of them I take exception with right off the bat:

Unescaped Special Character Error155Character: '<' should be &lt;
Unescaped Special Character Error233Character: '>' should be &gt;

Those are, as best I can tell, the start and end tags of the following comment:

<!-- CSS Layout graciously donated by [link|http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/|http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/] -->

Why should those be escaped?

Edit: Fixed escaping of < and > in table up top.
-YendorMike

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Strange errors
Trying to validate [link|http://www.mikevitale.com/|http://www.mikevitale.com/] shows 3 errors. Two of them I take exception with right off the bat:

Unescaped Special Character Error155Character: '<' should be <
Unescaped Special Character Error233Character: '>' should be >

Those are, as best I can tell, the start and end tags of the following comment:

<!-- CSS Layout graciously donated by [link|http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/|http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/] -->

Why should those be escaped?
-YendorMike

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #238,383
by tuberculosis
Picture of tuberculosis
12/16/05 8:39:57 PM
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New That's a bug
It occurs in commented style sheets. I hadn't realized that commenting style sheets was so common.

I'm planing to fix it this weekend - thanks for your feedback!


"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush
Post #238,392
by Yendor
12/16/05 9:47:05 PM
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New Err...
Comments in stylesheets are of the /* C++ */ variety. Nothing to do with unescaped &lt; and &gt; tags...
-YendorMike

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #238,409
by tuberculosis
Picture of tuberculosis
12/17/05 1:14:30 AM
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New Ah Right
that's another bug I have to fix.

I've just fixed this one, seems html comments are a lot more [link|http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/SGMLComments.html|complicated] than most people (me among them) realize.

The spurious error was caused by Comment deriving from CDATA. It *is* a sort of opaque hunk of text that I don't care about, like CDATA, but there are different escaping rules so I eliminated the inheritance relationship and made them distinct.

Not yet deployed, probably won't deploy new version until late sunday. Still working on CSS1 validation (fairly easy), then CSS2 (some of which jumps the shark).

Thanks for your report.


"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush
     Update: Scruitinzier back online - all known problems fixed. - (tuberculosis) - (23) - Dec. 11, 2005, 04:22:28 AM EST
         Crash (?) on W3C.org's page. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Dec. 11, 2005, 08:50:31 AM EST
             I get that the URLs I've tried too -NT - (cforde) - Dec. 11, 2005, 04:57:54 PM EST
             It's crashing on my home page, too. - (static) - Dec. 11, 2005, 11:37:25 PM EST
             Doh! I'm an idiot! Fixed! - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 12, 2005, 02:32:54 AM EST
         Three questions - (ben_tilly) - (11) - Dec. 11, 2005, 12:51:56 PM EST
             What is your name? What is your quest? What... - (admin) - (1) - Dec. 11, 2005, 02:30:13 PM EST
                 I'll definitely try the CSS trick -NT - (ben_tilly) - Dec. 11, 2005, 07:55:40 PM EST
             Re: Three questions - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Dec. 12, 2005, 02:48:00 AM EST
                 The cookie is a login cookie - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Dec. 12, 2005, 11:48:28 AM EST
                     Yes, that is coming - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 12, 2005, 01:10:31 PM EST
             What I've been contemplating... - (ChrisR) - (5) - Dec. 12, 2005, 12:01:03 PM EST
                 Ooooohhhh ... yeah, do that -NT - (drewk) - Dec. 12, 2005, 12:02:02 PM EST
                 ++GREAT - (folkert) - Dec. 12, 2005, 12:58:30 PM EST
                 That would be cool - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Dec. 12, 2005, 01:03:08 PM EST
                     Been using HTMLValidator for a while - (ChrisR) - (1) - Dec. 12, 2005, 02:17:10 PM EST
                         Could do a little extension - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 12, 2005, 03:55:46 PM EST
         Managed to blow it up - (JayMehaffey) - (2) - Dec. 15, 2005, 12:36:18 PM EST
             Oh cool! - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Dec. 16, 2005, 03:34:19 PM EST
                 No problem -NT - (JayMehaffey) - Dec. 16, 2005, 04:08:15 PM EST
         Strange errors - (Yendor) - (3) - Dec. 16, 2005, 09:48:15 PM EST
             That's a bug - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Dec. 16, 2005, 08:39:57 PM EST
                 Err... - (Yendor) - (1) - Dec. 16, 2005, 09:47:05 PM EST
                     Ah Right - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 17, 2005, 01:14:30 AM EST

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