- From: Bless Terje <link@rito.no>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 04:10:00 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
[ A thousand apologies if this message is crappily formatted. ] [ I'm stuck using MS Outlook at work. ] >Try to validate www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr [and] the validator starts >an infinite loop and says: > >Error at line 7: >(truncated) (truncated) > > Non SGML character number 0 You are right that there is a bug in the validator, but the bug is related to the fact that it reports this as occuring in line 7. What is _not_ a bug is the error message it gives. That page contains a, pardonmyfrench, *shitload* of embedded ASCII NUL characters trailing one of the lines. It's not an "infinite loop" either (but I don't blame you for think it was; that was *lot* of errors!). If you have a little patience, you'll find it reports the error for each NUL and then goes on with the rest of the document. I can't off the top of my head think of a way to handle this -- maybe a chokepoint for number of errors? -- or why the line numbers are off, but I'll give it a whirl and see if I come up with anything. Gerald, did you have any ideas about why line numbers are off sometimes (cf. comments in source/CVS log)? Somewhere I could start looking?
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