Re: my error

sander wijnbergen wrote:

> dear w3.org,

The www-validator list (which you posted to) is a public discussion list 
hosted by the W3C, and most people in the list are not W3C staff.

> i got a validation report whit this error
>
> character "<" invalid: only delimiter ">", delimiter "[", "CDATA",
> "NDATA", "SDATA" and parameter separators allowed.

The posting instructions for the list suggest that a URL of the problem 
document be included in the message.

In this case, the problem can be guessed relatively well, though. You 
probably have an extraneous "<" character in the document type declaration. 
For example, the construct

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
<"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

triggers this error message, due to the extraneous "<" at the start of the 
second line. So check for such occurrences of "<" and remove them, and post 
the URL if problems remain.

Actually the error message I got was _slightly_ different from yours, so my 
guess was probably not perfect.

Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ 

Received on Monday, 8 October 2007 15:52:45 UTC