Re: Tag-close > in Sourcelisting not encoded

From: Terje Bless (link@tss.no)
Date: Wed, Jun 20 2001

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    Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:10:30 +0200
From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
To: 9zeimer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <20010620111533-b01010705-34f71568-0910-010c@192.146.238.91>
Subject: Re: Tag-close > in Sourcelisting not encoded

On 19.06.01 at 20:43, Mr. Z <9zeimer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:

>In the source listing of validator, the > are encoded as &gt;. becuase
>of this my Browser report the following error: (Warning (107/94):
>Character '>' have not been encoded (wasn't defined as '&gt'))
>(iCab/de/MacOS)

Cool! An iCab user. Nice browser, isn't it? :-)

iCab is beeing a little overzealous here I think. It's not a complete
validating SGML Parser, it just uses some form of internal syntax tables. I
/think/ that right angle brackets do not strictly have to be escaped. I'll
check up on it -- and report it to the iCab people if necessary -- but I'll
start encoding them just to be on the safe side in any case.

Thanks for your feedback on this.