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RE: Error Message Feedback

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:09:47 +0000
To: Brian MacLeod <bmacleod@fiber101.com>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <1133554187.20480.2.camel@cyberman.dorward.me.uk> 

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 11:28 -0800, Brian MacLeod wrote:

> I'm only suggesting that the Validator output this as part of an error,
> similar to what it does when it discovers an HTML error.  It outputs the
> incorrect HTML and flags the file as invalid.

Actually, it outputs an HTML representation of the source code to the
file.

Doing something similar for bytes which can't be interpreted as
characters isn't so simple.

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David Dorward                           <http://dorward.me.uk/>
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another."
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