- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:27:18 +0200 (EET)
- To: Richard at Yowsie <richard@yowsie.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Richard at Yowsie wrote: > I got the error > > end tag for "head" which is not finished > > when what I had actually done was omitted a title That's a rather common situation. > Is it possible to make the message more specific? I don't know the internals of the validator, but it _should_ be possible. After all, the parser _should_ know which elements it is missing, otherwise it cannot tell that an element "is not finished" (which is a somewhat odd formulation, since there _is_ an end tag for it - it's just not _validly_ finished). As an educated guess, I think the validator could be modified to report something like End tag for element "..." found, but the element lacks required subelement(s): "..." or "..." or ... where the "..." strings would have to be generated from the parameters of the parsing routine. But this really depends on the parser. If the above is not possible, then I would suggest a reformulation like End tag for element "..." found, but the element lacks some required subelement(s). (Not very brilliant, but correct, and points to the right direction.) Or maybe as the http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ validator puts it: Missing a required sub-element of ... -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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