RE: scribe.perl fails to quote markup [was: Re: scribe.perl markup suggestion for <em>]

Ah-ha!  Thanks for the debugging!  I'll put this on the "To Do" list.
(Copying www-archive so I can reference it.)

David Booth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph R. Swick [mailto:swick@w3.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:12 PM
> To: Chris Lilley
> Cc: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston); w3t-archive@w3.org
> Subject: scribe.perl fails to quote markup [was: Re: 
> scribe.perl markup suggestion for <em>]
> 
> 
> At 03:12 AM 3/31/2006 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:
> 
> >IRC log
> >http://www.w3.org/2006/02/09-svg-irc
> 
> rev 1.42 is the one that was run through scribe.perl
> at the time.
> 
> >Perhaps this date caused a problem?
> >
> >19:42:55 [aneumann]
> >    SH: gotoLocation was brought up in september 2003
> 
> Nope, had nothing to do with dates.  It was more subtle.
> Tidy reported:
> 
>   line 34 column 1 - Warning: trimming empty <dd>
>   line 77 column 1 - Warning: replacing element </p> by <br>
>   line 77 column 1 - Warning: inserting implicit <br>
>   line 693 column 104 - Error: <svg:svg> is not recognized!
>   line 693 column 104 - Warning: discarding unexpected <svg:svg>
>   Info: Doctype given is "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>   Info: Document content looks like HTML 4.01 Transitional
>   4 warnings, 1 error were found!
> 
>   This document has errors that must be fixed before
>   using HTML Tidy to generate a tidied up version.
> 
> and produced an empty output.
> 
> The line in question read:
> 
> [[
>   <strong>[NEW]</strong> <strong>ACTION:</strong> CL to fix 
> the spec regarding   SVGT12-476 [SVGMobile12] <svg:svg> width 
> and height should provide intrinsic size in a CSS context 
> [recorded in <a 
> href="http://www.w3.org/2006/02/09-svg-minutes.html#action02">
> http://www.w3.org/2006/02/09-svg-minutes.html#action02</a>] <br />
> ]]
> 
> So the scribe.perl bug is in not XML-escaping '<'.
> 
> 
>

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