- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 21:22:52 +0100
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: Léa Gris <lea.gris@freesbee.fr>
On 06.11.99 at 19:45, Léa Gris <lea.gris@freesbee.fr> wrote:
>[I've] put a fake [DOCTYPE] inside [a comment]. The validator read it as
>the [DOCTYPE] to use instead of using the real one [in] the first line.
OK. Found & Fixed. It'll be in the next patch I send to Gerald. In the mean
time, anyone can edit the "check" CGI program on line 1144.
Original: $dttext =~ s/.*doctype\s+html\s+public\s*["']//i;
New: $dttext =~ s/.*?doctype\s+html\s+public\s*["']//i;
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The regex is greedy and so gobbles up the first DOCTYPE, leaving only the
second one.
Since this is a one-char fix I won't bother making a patch for it, but
while looking over this code I found some significant (read: *significant*)
potential for performance improvement and so I'll produce a patch for that
which will incorporate this fix.
Received on Saturday, 6 November 1999 15:44:16 UTC