- From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 12:55:22 +0300
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On 05/09/2011 08:43 PM, Brett Alton wrote: > When I have an error, the validator reports as "Line 26, column 8: end > tag for "ul" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified". > > This is fine, but my error is not on line 26. > > When I click 'view source' through your validator, I see that it > removes all the whitespace in the <head></head> and squeezes it all on > line 1. If it didn't do that, the line number, when looking at the > 'view source' in my browser (or in my text editor if it's a static > html page) actually has a line number of "Line 114, column 9". > > Should the line number not reflect the original source code and not > the stripped whitespace source code? It should reflect the source of the document actually validated. I'm not aware of a case where validator would behave as you describe above; for further investigation we'll need a link to a document with which this behavior can be reproduced.
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