Re: Malformed declarations incorrectly parsed?

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:

> Sorry, but I think you've missed the point of the test case:
>
> p { color:red; color:; color:green }
>
> The problem is not that the validator reports a redefinition of color. The 
> problem is that if you apply the rule:
>
> "Lexical errors are handled with a skip to matching brace"
>
> Then the validator should skip to the matching brace after "color:;", since 
> that is a "lexical error". It should not report any declarations after 
> "color:;" at all, whether they are redefinitions or not.

In fact, the CSS21 text says that a UA must read until the end of a 
declaration, in that case a ';' or a '}' and in doing that, ignore 
matching pairs, like  '{..}'

And that's what the bug fix was about, ignoring matching pairs, while 
previously it was just looking for a ; or }.
HTH,

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