- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:37:48 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Eric Bednarz wrote: >> Is that a bug ? > Generally sniffing the prolog in the hope to find clues? > Sure. The OP tried to validate a document using one of the direct input forms, probably on <http://validator.w3.org/> or maybe on <http://validator.w3.org/fragment-upload.html>. > For SGML parsing, an 'XML declaration' is just an ordinary > processing instruction. Obviously not what he wanted. And it's not impossible to get it right, it works for URLs or uploaded files. > Ah; all the best, honestly, and don't hold your breath. The interface and error messages wrt DOCTYPE and charset are confusing, and after some years I hope that it's not only my fault. Maybe it's something simple like a missing second submit button for XML-mode. > the note in > <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nobr.html#valid> > might give some clues. Yes, he has written that in March 2000, and if I test the page http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nobr.html 6.5 years later it apparently still doesn't work. > <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbednarz.nl%2Ftmp%2Fnobr%2F&ss=1> Cute. For other curious folks, the DTD is only five lines: <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "http://bednarz.nl/tmp/nobr/www.dtd"> Frank (not planning to create documents with <nobr> elements)
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