- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:28:58 +0000
- To: Lorna Fear <lfear@garlic.com>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Lorna Fear wrote: > > Validating http://infraredmagic.com/ > Error [143]: "value of fixed attribute X not equal to default" > > A magazine article and some non-profit flyers just came out with this > URL and I’d love to be able to fix it soon. This is just the first of > 989 violations. I’m using Publisher 2003. Now you know I’m broke! > The basic problem is that Publisher seems to have generated something that isn't HTML. It looks to be some XML language that is a hybrid of Microsoft document formats and HTML. Possibly something designed to let Publisher documents be viewed in Internet Explorer - the page won't even render in my copy of Firefox. For an XHTML document, the namespace should be set with xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml". In your example, the complaint is about it using the URI for the HTML 4.01 recommendation - which is odd to say the least, since HTML 4.01 isn't an XML language. I would extract the text and any graphics, then mark it up from scratch rather then letting Publisher anywhere near it. (Please direct responses to the www-validator mailing list and not directly to me, thanks) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/
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