- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:07:25 +0100
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
* Al Gilman wrote: >But I thought you still might be interested in an example of a case where >invalid >coding in the page brought me grief and the validator doesn't catch it. > >The URI-reference in question is > >http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2002/mondaypm.asp#wai > >A bug in the coding of this page is > > <a name="#wai"></a> This is a valid name attribute. >Neither Netscape nor Lynx will follow the broken reference, but IE will. The reference is indeed broken, it should be http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2002/mondaypm.asp#%23wai >The page is invalid in its own right (without trying to access it by that >URI-reference) because of the requirement that the html:a.name attribute >meet the 'name' syntactic production which requires an alpha character as >the initial character, and hence does not allow a leading hash. But the >SGML parser doesn't check this, it seems. The name attribute is CDATA not NAME.
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