- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 20:03:44 +0200
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: John Dunlop <jdunlop@cis.strath.ac.uk>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: >* John Dunlop wrote: >>My somewhat pedantic dispute is with the error message displayed. >>Although it doesn't belie the reason for the error, it seems that there >>is a glitch. For an entity reference with the name "foo:bar", the error >>message is: >> >>[...] cannot generate system identifier for general entity "foo > >onsgmls uses the colon to separate between message fields, the validator >considers the colon in the message to indicate the end of the current >field and thus strips the colon (and whatever might be following it) off >the message. And to expand somewhat on that, this is a bug in the Validator that I fix and break again approximately every other time I touch the code in question. :-( The WDG Validator and Page Valet do not suffer from this because 1) Liam is a better coder than me and 2) Nick has solved this once and for all by patching OpenSP. :-) - -- Now Playing "Ne Me Quitte Pas (If You Go Away)" by "Nina Simone" from the album "Feeling Good - The Very Best Of". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.0 iQA/AwUBPsZ5fzfq/Hm0uHR3EQI8bACgzxlbMyUNTU2YzsKIBhEMceeQXWoAn0f5 gw+8jmkjBw+DWfArJPzyeEt8 =eQjk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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