Re: validating w3c outputs differ

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:44:37 +0000 Message-ID: <49367F35.9090903@dorward.me.uk> To: adrian@just-contact.me.uk CC: www-validator@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 7 December 2009 10:57:33 GMT

Adrian wrote:
> Checking the feed validation of http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F
> http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjigsaw.w3.org%2Fcss-validator%2Fvalidator%3Fprofile%3Dcss21%26warning%3D0%26uri%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.w3.org%252F
> shows errors
> line 72, column 45: Undefined named entity: uarr (4 occurrences) [help]
>
>                <p class="backtop"><a href="#banner">&uarr; Top</a></p>
>   
To quote the results: "It looks like this is a web page, not a feed. I 
looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn't find one. 
Please enter the address of your feed to validate."

It then attempts to validate the document as a feed, and 
(unsurprisingly) fails to do so.