Re: Error messages

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:35, Nick Kew wrote:
> On 16 Jun 2003, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> > > Well, we certainly need better messages; but I really don't want to use a
> > > patched version of OpenSP for the Validator if at all possible.
> >
> > Hooray from the packaging point of view! :)
> 
> It's not really a serious issue for packaging; the different sets of
> messages are completely interchangable as far as building and running
> a working installation are concerned.

Ok, but there's stuff like
<http://validator.w3.org:8001/docs/errors.html>...

> > Nick, aren't your changes (or a subset of them) acceptable upstream in
> > OpenSP?
> 
> I haven't asked there.  The basic issue is that some of the changes
> are pretty specific to the validation task, and would probably not
> be appropriate to other OpenSP applications.
> 
> For example, it replaces a warning about NET-enabling start tag with
> (from memory) "Stray slash found in start tag: are you confusing SGML
> and XML (or HTML and XHTML) syntax?"
> 
> Do you think I should post a diff to openjade-devel with a pointer to
> this thread, and ask for opinions?

That's what I'd do.  It's a win-win situation for everyone in the end if
even some of the changes are considered improvements to OpenSP and get
applied there.

-- 
\/ille Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi

Received on Monday, 16 June 2003 01:14:34 UTC