- From: Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:45:31 +1200 (NZST)
- To: CReitzel@arrakisplanet.com, cxs0187@omega.uta.edu
- Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
Chunbo Shao <cxs0187@omega.uta.edu> wrote:
Attached files are some html page on some university. I didn't
make the page. I just use Tidy to parse it.
...
The file "42-upenn.edu" gave me the error "Error: <a> missing
'>' for end of tag".
...
I cannot see any clue to figure out why the error happans.
I've only checked one of these files, the 42-upenn.edu one.
HTML Tidy says the error is on line 195. So look at line 195, which
I have split inside the second </A> to fit in a reasonable width.
v
<LI><A href="http://www.arstechnica.com/"</A>Ars Technica</A
> <FONT Size=-2>Ars Technica</FONT><br>
Blow me down. HTML Tidy told you there is a missing '>'
because there *IS* a missing '>'. How about that?
The letter "v" points to the place where the '>' should have been.
Not only that, the <A> is ended twice. It looks as though the first
'</A>' on line 195 should have been '>'.
Note for the discerning: the appearance of '<FONT SIZE=-2> is an
extremely reliable indicator of a page written by the HTML-clueless,
and so it proves. This is a page that badly needs the attentions of Tidy.
Received on Sunday, 26 August 2001 21:45:55 UTC