Re: Error Message Feedback

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, David Håsäther wrote:

>>> character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data.
>>>  <meta name="revised" content="Time-stamp: <2006-10-03 22:54:38 rick> " />
>> 
>> The warning is misleading. The character "<" is just a data character when 
>> it appears inside an attribute value. There it is not a delimiter of any 
>> kind.
>
> In XML, '<' must be escaped when used in attribute values.

I stand corrected. This was about XML apparently, due to the magic "/" 
before ">", so what the validator _should_ have issued is an _error_ 
message (with a better text). But I'm afraid this is yet another part of 
the story that the validator is really an SGML validator with some quick 
and dirty tricks for kind-of dealing with XML too.y

-- 
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/