Re: Glitch in validator?

At 09:32 AM 10/06/1999 -0400, Alan Schneider wrote:
>Please do not hesitate to correct me if I have gotten
>this wrong, but I would have thought that the validator 
>should basically ignore everything between the 
><script type="..."> and the </script>.

You are wrong, you need to escape the "</", and this is the most
frequently asked question about the validator.  It's not a bug;
please see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/
as it's been covered there many times.  (In fact, I was sure just
from reading your subject line that you would be reporting the
same supposed "bug" as everyone else...)

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Received on Wednesday, 6 October 1999 12:56:37 UTC