(unknown charset) Re: [BUG] Warning column numbers incorrect

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, J. David Bryan wrote:

> The column numbers reported by Tidy in warnings for unknown
> attributes are incorrect.  For example, the following HTML:
> 
>   <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
>   <html>
>   <title>Column bugs</title>>   <body>
>   <p bogus="X" yoohoo="Y">Some text</p>>   </html>
> 
> reports these warnings:
> 
>   line 6 column 1 - Warning: unknown attribute "yoohoo"
>   line 6 column 1 - Warning: unknown attribute "bogus"
> 
> However, the column numbers should be 14 and 4, respectively.  
> I presume but have not verified that "lexer->columns" is not
> being updated as attributes are parsed in "lexer.c".

Yes, this is a known limitation and something that should be
fixed.

Many thanks,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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Received on Tuesday, 28 March 2000 12:30:38 UTC