Problem with Validator

Hello All - I installed the W3C HTML Validator v0.6.7 on a RedHat 9 system 
using the tarball downloads.  When I validate a small html file, the first 
two (of many) errors are

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Line 2, column 38: URL not supported by this version
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 
Line 2, column 38: DTD did not contain element declaration for document 
type name
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 
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Is it not getting past the DOCTYPE declaration?   Here are the contents of 
the html file:

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 1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
 2: "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 
 3: 
 4: <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 
content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
 5: <title>ddAPI: DomDoc C++ API Documentation</title>
 6: <link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
 7: </head><body>
 8: <!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.3.7 -->
 9: <div class="qindex"><a class="qindexHL" 
href="index.html">Main&nbsp;Page</a> | <a class="qindex" 
href="hierarchy.html">Class&nbsp;Hierarchy</a> | <a class="qindex" 
href="annotated.html">Class&nbsp;List</a> | <a class="qindex" 
href="files.html">File&nbsp;List</a> | <a class="qindex" 
href="functions.html">Class&nbsp;Members</a> | <a class="qindex" 
href="globals.html">File&nbsp;Members</a> | <a class="qindex" 
href="pages.html">Related&nbsp;Pages</a></div>
10: <h1>DomDoc C++ API Documentation </h1>
11: <p>
12: <h3 align="center">1 </h3>This is the completely documented C++ API 
for Domino.Doc. <hr size="1"><address style="align: 
right;"><small>Generated on Mon Aug 30 22:40:07 2004 for ddAPI by
13: <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/index.html">
14: <img src="doxygen.png" alt="doxygen" align="middle" border=0 ></a> 
1.3.7 </small></address>
15: </body>
16: </html>
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When I remove the URL from the doctype declaration so that it looks like 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 
the first error listed now becomes:

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Line 1, column 62: cannot generate system identifier for public text 
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
....PE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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It seems to not recognize the doctype declaration.

The SGML Library path in validator.conf is pointing to the correct 
/sgml-lib directory, and the loose.dtd file is in the proper subdirectory.

BTW, this file validates fine when uploaded to the W3C public validation 
server.

Thanks!!!

bob

Received on Wednesday, 1 September 2004 20:47:11 UTC