Re: Dubious validator error. Validator bug or what ?

From: Christian Smith (csmith@barebones.com)
Date: Wed, May 30 2001

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From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
To: sysadmin <andreip@rnc.ro>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <20010530145324-b01010702-ad6a6969-0910-010c@204.107.232.107>
Subject: Re: Dubious validator error. Validator bug or what ?

On Wednesday, May 30, 2001 at 5:57 AM, andreip@rnc.ro (sysadmin) wrote:

> Lookig at:
> 
> <li><b><strong><blink>---&gt;</blink><a href="/rh ...
>                         ^
> The validator said:     |
>                         ^
> Error: invalid comment declaration; check your comment syntax
> 
> ???
> What comment ???  That wasn't any comment, it was just an ascii-art
> arrow made out of three dashes and a GT sign (properly encoded 
> as &gt;).
> 
> Care to take a look ?

Post the URL for the page. My bet is that you have a comment earlier in
the page which is not properly formed.

> P.S. Experienced a maybe similar problem with MSIE, in an url like
> http://server.na.me/cgi-bin/cgi-name?x=y¤tdate=today&z=t
> it improperly replaced &curren with asc($)+128. 

This is why you need to entity encode the & in the URL when the URL is
used as the value of an href attribute.

The correct format would be

http://server.na.me/cgi-bin/cgi-name?x=y&currentdate=today&z=t


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