- From: Jason Liu <jasonliu@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:06:01 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Greetings, It seems that the HTML validator skips any blank lines when counting line numbers. What this means is that if I have some blank lines in my (X)HTML file and the validator returns errors, I cannot skip to that line number in my (X)HTML file and expect to see the error that has been flagged. I would highly recommend that the line numbers that you print out are the actual line numbers of the input file, not the line numbers after the validator has parsed out blank or all whitespace lines. I personally code all of my (X)HTML and CSS pages by hand instead of using a Web publishing tool like FrontPage or Dreamweaver, because I am a computer programmer, and I prefer to have total control over my code. As a result, I occasionally put blank lines in my files to make my markup easier for me to read. By not having line numbers that match up with the error, it makes it much more inconvenient to debug my pages that have errors. Sincerely, Jason Liu ===================================================================== * Jason Liu Phone: (734) 945-0531 (Cell) * * B.S.E. Electrical Engineering * * B.S.E. Computer Engineering http://www.JasonLiu.net/ * * University of Michigan E-Mail: jasonliu@engin.umich.edu * =====================================================================
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