Hi,
It seems there is a problem in the HTML4.decl shipped with
PR-html40-19990824 . I glanced at the www-html-editor archive
and didn't see this there already, so here it is.
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Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com> wrote:
> I've got a student who's attempted to use the hex representation for a few
> character entities, and the validator is throwing up an interesting error:
>
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.xoom.com%2F_XOOM%2Fne
> t_miner%2F02%2Fcharent.html
There's nothing wrong in this document. This document is valid.
> eg:
>
> <LI>Hexadecimal: <STRONG>f7</STRONG> ÷
>
> Error: "XF7" is not a function name
>
>
> Aside from likely interoperability problems in using the hex version --
> what is the validation issue here?
The SGML declaration used in the validator is broken, namely, failed
to support Web SGML Adoption. I thought we have fixed this problem [1]
long time ago, but the bug arises again.
The validator currently uses the following SGML declaration, which is
broken:
http://validator.w3.org/sgml-lib/REC-html40-19980424/HTML4.decl
And even worse, PR-html40-19990824 failed to fix this problem as well,
despite this have been listed in the HTML 4.0 Specification Errata [2].
We MUST fix this problem.
[1] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/htdocs/sgml-lib/REC-html40-971218/HTML4.decl?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
[2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html40-updates/REC-html40-19980424-errata.html
Regards,
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