- From: Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:10:00 -0500
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > I just noticed that you don't warn about the colon in > > <IMG SRC="g:claudia-small.jpg" ALT="A picture of me"> > ^^^ > > According to my reading of RFC 2396 the colon is illegal here, yet the > validator does not warn about it. Excerpt from Appendix A of the RFC: URI-reference = [ absoluteURI | relativeURI ] [ "#" fragment ] [..] absoluteURI = scheme ":" ( hier_part | opaque_part ) [..] opaque_part = uric_no_slash *uric So it seems to me that "g:claudia-small.jpg" is a well-formed URI and the validator shouldn't complain. Whether "g:claudia-small.jpg" is another story. The link checker will complain about it. On a side note, I don't think that the validator checks the validity of a URI. -- Hugo Haas, Webmaster, Systems Team World Wide Web Consortium mailto:hugo@w3.org Massachusetts Institute of Technology tel:+1-617-452-2092
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