Re: A bug in the validator... from Liam Quinn on 1999-05-27 (www-validator@w3.org from May 1999)

From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 08:45:25 -0400
To: "Tony L. Svanstrom" <tony@svanstrom.com>, www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990527084525.00c09ca0@mail.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>

At 01:09 AM 27/05/99 -0400, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
>me thinks I've found a bug in the validator

I've been hearing this so often that I finally stuck it on a (thus far
brief) page explaining common validation problems:

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#script

Additionally, there's one error that the validator won't catch since it
doesn't check HTML output from JavaScript:

>document.write('<A HREF="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri='
>+ document.location.href + '&warning=0">' + CSSpic + '</A>');

The "&" must be written as "&amp;" to avoid being an invalid entity.  (I
think I'll add this to the Common Problems page...)

-- 
Liam Quinn

Received on Thursday, 27 May 1999 08:45:25 UTC