Re: bug in validator with accesskey?

No, but it might be a "bug" in the DTD mechanism.

From the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD (The one I had handy, sorry)

The accesskey Attribute is a %Character; Entity, which in turn is CDATA
which cannot
be limited to ONE character.  Looking at the definitions of %Character; and
%Number; you'll see what I mean ...

<!ENTITY % Character "CDATA">
    <!-- a single character from [ISO10646] -->

<!ENTITY % Number "CDATA">
    <!-- one or more digits -->

Validation against a Schema will fix this problem.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathleen Brade" <brade@netscape.com>
To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: bug in validator with accesskey?


> Here is some html I sent to the validator today:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
>   <title>bug</title>
>   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
> </head>
> <body>
> <textarea name="namer" rows="4" cols="9" tabindex="3"
> accesskey="55">default</textarea>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> result was "no errors found!"
> However, I think that having an accesskey with > 1 character is an
> error.  Is this a bug in the validator or a misinterpretation of the
> spec on my part?
>
> Thank you!
> Kathleen Brade
> Netscape Communications
>
>

Received on Saturday, 6 October 2001 20:03:40 UTC