Re: what line? from Jukka K. Korpela on 2005-05-23 (www-validator@w3.org from May 2005)

From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:22:55 +0300 (EEST)
To: Mauritius Bird <mauritiusbird@dodo.com.au>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0505231404460.293@korppi.cs.tut.fi>

On Mon, 23 May 2005, David Dorward wrote:

> >     "Line 180, column 112: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter"
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> >    2. What does this mean in plain English?
>
> I *think* it means you forgot a semi-colon. I'd have to see the source
> to be sure.

Actually we don't need the source for this (though it is always a good
idea to post a URL when asking about a validator message). REFC means
a semicolon that terminates an entity reference like &auml; or a character
reference like &#228;. The semicolon is always required in XHTML and also
required in older HTML versions in many contexts.

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

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