- From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:24:40 -0400
- To: Gunnar Vestergaard <user1975@worldonline.dk>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Wednesday, June 13, 2001 at 8:12 PM, user1975@worldonline.dk (Gunnar Vestergaard) wrote: > I have chosen not to subscribe to this list. I just want to convey to > you an issue regarding the W3C HTML Validator: > > It may be called a bug, but I am not sure. When validating the fragment > <img src=/grafik/layout/read_more.gif alt="Read more"> > > the Validator reports an error: "an attribute value must be quoted if > it contains any character other than letters (A-Za-z), digits, > hyphens, and periods; use quotes if in doubt" > > The underscore is an issue here. But the HTML spec > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2 clearly > states that underscores are allowed without placing quotation marks. > Surely, I will place quotation marks around this URI, but I believe > there is a conflict here. I don't think it is the _ causing the problem but rather the /. The error being reported is correct but the text just doesn't include underscore as one of the allowed non-quoted characters. The validator does correctly pass <img src=read_more.gif alt="Read more"> assuming a DOCTYPE that allows unquoted attribute values. -- Christian Smith | csmith@barebones.com | http://web.barebones.com He who dies with the most friends... Is still dead!
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