Re: validator.nu claims CONTROL_CHARACTER in QUERY from cvsweb?

Hi,

On Aug 14, 2008, at 17:41, Dan Connolly wrote:

> For no particular reason, I checked this page with validator.nu:
>  http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2008/test-harness/
>
> One of the diagnostics I got baffled me:
>
> --8<--
> Error: Bad value testsuite.php?rev=1.2&stWWW/w3c_home$
> --d��content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup for attribute href on  
> element a:
> CONTROL_CHARACTER in QUERY.
[...]
> huh? The string "w3c_home$" doesn't occur in the source of the page.
> Nor does "stWWW". What's going on here?

This looks like fallout from recent parser changes (see http://hsivonen.iki.fi/performance-mistake/ 
  ) and wasn't caught by the test suite.

Thank you for reporting this. I'll investigate.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
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