- From: John Russell <ve3ll@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:37:55 -0400
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
just realized i forgot topaste the example --- here it comes note the lack of a space in the image element -- that is the key! <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head><title>Spacing Test</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body> <img src="foobar.gif"alt="special picture" /> </body> </html> On 11 Jul 2003 at 12:19, John Russell wrote: Date forwarded: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:19:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "John Russell" <ve3ll@cogeco.ca> To: www-amaya@w3.org Date sent: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:19:53 -0400 Send reply to: ve3ll@rac.ca Priority: normal Subject: XML parsing error Forwarded by: www-amaya@w3.org [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] the following short file passes thru both w3.org and WDG validators however Amaya 8.1a signals an error because of the omission of a space after the quote mark.... is this 1] a bug in the Amaya parser 2] a bug in the w3.org and wdg parsers 3] a grey area in the XHTML recommendation where the requirement for spacing is vague.... tokenizers have no difficulty recognizing end/begin of these tokens and normal convention is to disregard spacing except where absolutely required for correct tokenization. ??? john in niagara canada-- John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll (2 L's as in LLAMA) check HTML at http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ check CSS at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ check JavaScript at http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jslint.html -- John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll (2 L's as in LLAMA) check HTML at http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ check CSS at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ check JavaScript at http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jslint.html
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