- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 05:53:00 +0900
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hi Bjoern, On Sun, Sep 15, 2002, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > The following example document will cause horrible results by the > validator (note the missing trailing '?' in the XML declaration): Hmm, indeed, I wonder why the "caveat" disclaimer about XML support is gone. > (online demo at http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/invalid-xmldecl.html) > > First, it doesn't warn about the ill-formed XML declaration, then it > fails to detect the character encoding and prints out dozens of errors > Error: omitted tag minimization parameter can be omitted only if > "OMITTAG NO" is specified on the SGML declaration The dev instance does a "better job", i.e it can't find a charset (probably because the XML declaration is incorrect), and stops there. No explicit error about the XML decl, though. http://validator.w3.org:8001/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bjoernsworld.de%2Ftemp%2Finvalid-xmldecl.html -- Olivier Thereaux - W3C http://www.w3.org/People/olivier | http://yoda.zoy.org
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