<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <HTML> <Head> <Title>Invalid page</Title> <Script Type="SomeScriptingLanguageThatTheValidatorShouldntCareAbout"> <!-- Note that this is valid code for SomeScriptingLanguageThatTheValidatorShouldntCareAbout and it just happens to contain things that looks like </a> tag but are treated by the script laungage as something else. Note that this </code> is inclosed not only in the open and close <Script> tags but also multi line comment tags. One of two things should be happening here, either the <Script> tag is special or it is not! If it is special then it's entire contents should be ignored by the validator. If it is not special then the multi-line comment should be treated as </a> comment! What is happening is the validator is parsing the multi-line comment and seeing these so-called tags and flaging them as errors. Note I'm not saying the validator should understand the syntax of SomeScriptingLanguageThatTheValidatorShouldntCareAbout, but rather there should be some method to tell it to ignore the script. // --> </Script> </Head> <Body> <P> This page does not validate! </Body> </HTML>Received on Tuesday, 11 September 2001 13:32:04 GMT
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