Re: Amaya 8.2-pre still accepts invalid XHTML as valid

Hi Steven,

Amaya produces valid XHTML 1.1 but cannot be used to validate or
correct invalid loaded files.
We can consider the possiblity to connect an existing Validator or Tidy
before loading documents into Amaya.

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:48:26 -0000 
Steven Gilham <steven.gilham@eu.citrix.com> wrote:

> 
> Testing Amaya 8.2-pre on Win2k, with the file at the end of the message,
> which validator.w3.org notes as
> 
> ------------begin copy from validator.w3.org report------------------
> 
> This page is not Valid XHTML 1.1!
> Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML
> parser. 
> 
> Line 12, column 12: character data is not allowed here 
>   <blockquote>naked text in blockquote</blockquote>
>               ^
> Line 12, column 48: end tag for "blockquote" which is not finished
> (explain...). 
>   <blockquote>naked text in blockquote</blockquote>
>                                                   ^
> Line 13, column 27: character data is not allowed here 
>   <ul><li>list-item text</li>naked text in list</ul>
>                              ^
> 
> ------------end copy from validator.w3.org report------------------
> 
> I loaded the file (below) into Amaya 8.2-pre and checked the Views menu.
> The "Show parsing errors" item is greyed-out, implying that it accepts this
> as valid source, even though the two sets of naked text are invalid.
> 
> File now follows below cut-here line
> 
> ---------------------------------8<--------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
>       "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
>   <title>No title</title>
>   <meta name="generator" content="amaya 8.1b, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/"
> />
> </head>
> 
> <body>
> <blockquote>naked text in blockquote</blockquote>
> <ul><li>list-item text</li>naked text in list</ul>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> 


     Irene.
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