- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:26:23 +0100 (BST)
- To: Gunnar Vestergaard <user1975@worldonline.dk>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, 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. The slashes aren't? L. > 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. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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