- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:40:27 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Boris 'pi' Piwinger <3.14@logic.univie.ac.at>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
> To give an example: Say you have a web page using embed
> which does not exist in HTML 4. Now there will be a lot of
> attributes to the embed tag. The validator complains about
> each of them. This is useless, it only hides the real error
> and hence makes the output hard to read.
That's an artifact of how the underlying parser works. It runs
straight through.
So, given:
<foo bar="nonsense" other="rubbish" >
1 2 3
it finds and reports attribute errors at 1 and 2, but the <foo> tag
isn't closed until 3, so it doesn't get checked and reported until
after the attributes.
You might prefer Page Valet's "visual validator" option, which
presents the results differently.
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Nick Kew
Received on Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:40:58 UTC