- From: Olivier Thereaux via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 14:43:31 +0000
- To: www-validator-cvs@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/validator/htdocs/docs
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv13615/docs
Modified Files:
errors.html
Log Message:
updated webized error message listing
Index: errors.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/validator/htdocs/docs/errors.html,v
retrieving revision 1.38
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -d -r1.38 -r1.39
--- errors.html 2 Apr 2007 10:20:26 -0000 1.38
+++ errors.html 7 May 2007 14:43:29 -0000 1.39
@@ -85,8 +85,12 @@
<li>forgetting to quote an attribute value
(where characters such as "%" and "/" are common, but cannot appear
without surrounding quotes), or</li>
- <li>using XHTML-style closing tags (such as <meta ... />) in HTML 4.01 or
- earlier. (Fix: remove the extra / character)</li>
+ <li>using XHTML-style self-closing tags (such as <meta ... />)
+ in HTML 4.01 or earlier. To fix, remove the extra slash ('/')
+ character. For more information about the reasons for this, see
+ <a href="http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html">Empty
+ elements in SGML, HTML, XML, and XHTML</a>.
+ </li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>
@@ -551,13 +555,14 @@
ASCII character, or to use an appropriate <a
href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html">character
entity</a>.
- <!-- http://groups.google.com/group/uk.net.web.authoring/browse_frm/thread/54c97b9c6fb89751
- For more information on Character Encoding on the web, see <a
- href="http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/aflavell.html">Alan
- Flavell</a>'s excellent <a
- href="http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/charset/">HTML Character
- Set Issues</a> reference.
+ <!--
+ http://groups.google.com/group/uk.net.web.authoring/browse_frm/thread/54c97b9c6fb89751
+ http://www.w3.org/mid/45EFC85A.1000706@dorward.me.uk
-->
+ For more information on Character Encoding on the web, see Alan
+ Flavell's excellent <a
+ href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060425191748/ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/">HTML Character
+ Set Issues</a> reference.
</p>
<p>
This error can also be triggered by formatting characters embedded in
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