- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:10:27 -0800
- To: "Pamela K Peters" <pkpeters@unlnotes.unl.edu>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
The trick is to get the database pages to output a correctly escaped URI. I don't see why you'd want to reprogram the validator to pass invalid code as valid, when the problem is the database output code. --Kynn On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 10:16 AM, Pamela K Peters wrote: > > When using the W3C MarkUp Validation Service I receive errors on my > files because of the URIs from database pages. Since using a database > is quite prevalent, could the validator be written to ignore the > href="....." string? The file, except for URIs is compliant, so the > "This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!" is not correct. > > Example from my file: > 49: <a > href="http://telecom.unl.edu/equipment/ > equipment_director.asp?cind=1&grp=Telephone" class="leftnav">Telephone > > Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an > SGML parser. > Line 49, column 74: cannot generate system identifier for general > entity "grp" > ...ipment/equipment_director.asp?cind=1&grp=Telephone" > class="leftnav">Telephone > ^ > > Line 49, column 74: general entity "grp" not defined and no default > entity (explain...). > ...ipment/equipment_director.asp?cind=1&grp=Telephone" > class="leftnav">Telephone > ^ > > Line 49, column 77: reference to entity "grp" for which no system > identifier could be generated > ...ipment/equipment_director.asp?cind=1&grp=Telephone" > class="leftnav">Telephone > ^ > > Line 49, column 73: entity was defined here > ...uipment/equipment_director.asp?cind=1&grp=Telephone" > class="leftnav">Teleph.. > > Thank you for considering this. > > > ****************************************************************** > Pamela K. Peters > University of Nebraska - Lincoln > pkpeters@unlnotes.unl.edu
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