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Re: [VE][404] Error Message Feedback

From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:01:19 -0500 (EST)
To: luser <luser00@tlen.pl>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412111159130.19223-100000@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, luser wrote:

> *character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> *This error showed me XHTML validator, but this character is attribute's 
> value used in JavaScript and javascript's function need it. Is that 
> xhtml error?

It would be easier to diagnose if you provided the URL of a document
demonstrating the problem, but I'm guessing that you're running into the
issue described here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8

-- 
Liam Quinn
Received on Saturday, 11 December 2004 17:01:09 UTC

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