On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Bailey, Bruce wrote: > When attempting to validate the attached file, I get an error three > identical messages on lines 153, 154, 155. > The lines in question are like: > <td headers="a212 b221 c241">104.02</td> > With the caret ^ pointing to the "a". > The error message itself is also spurious: > "Error: X" The error message should read "reference to non-existent ID "C241" The problem with the W3C validator is that it misparses the nsgmls output in this kind of instance. My page at <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/xml/> discusses the difficulties that lead to this, and presents a solution. [plug to w3c: another reason you need to adopt XMLMessageReporter - it will fix this bug for free :-) ] -- Nick Kew Site Valet - the mark of Quality on the Web. <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>Received on Wednesday, 19 December 2001 14:09:09 UTC
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