- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 02:09:56 +0200
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >http://www.damowmow.com/playground/html-not-xml-2.html > >....is a valid HTML 4.01 document. However, with the new validator, I >get the following error message: > >|This Page Is NOT Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict! >| >|Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML >|parser. >| >|1. Line 2, column 7: S separator in comment declaration >| >|<!-- -- --> ^ > >This is probably a bug in the XHTML detection code. > >Furthermore, when I force it to be handled as HTML 4.01, it still gets >autodetected as XHTML. Well, it's certainly a pathological case -- as I'm sure we've discussed before! :-) -- but I've logged it (internal bug number #14) and will have a look at whether there is any sane resolution to the issue. At the very least it should be possible to force SGML semantics when a DOCTYPE override for an SGML DOCTYPE is in effect. Thanks for the report! -- >For all I know they probably have a standard for >which direction to put the thread on a bolt. That would be ISO 261:1973. -- John Cowan
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