[ if these URLs get wrapped, you'll need to unwrap them ] Im the course of investigating error reports, I've just looked at http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FArchitecture%2Fqos.html contrasted with http://valet.webthing.com/page/val.cgi?url=http://www.w3.org/Architecture/qos.html The offending document looks like: <!doctype html> <p> [ several mistyped links, but content that would be valid in an HTML <body> ] ... The first error generated is of course "no internal or external document type declaration subset; will parse without validation". So of course the report that follows depends on the default SGML declaration used in such cases. w3-validator (in common with the WDG validator) generates a longish list of errors, from which it appears to be checking XML well-formed-ness. Yet the page in question is served as text/html, which in my book (and in particular those Site Valet tools that don't make this a user option) should still be parsed as SGML, not XML. I recollect reading some years ago in what I think was an official W3C spec (probably for HTML 3.2 or 4.0) that for back-compatibility, legacy documents should be parsed as HTML 2.0 in the absence of an FPI. Am I going senile, or has this been completely abandoned? -- Nick Kew Site Valet - the essential service for anyone with a website. <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>Received on Monday, 8 October 2001 02:28:54 GMT
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