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Re: Validator error messages

From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:46:29 +0200
To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
Cc: Etienne Miret <etienne.miret@ens-lyon.org>, msanderz@att.net, www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <20110920224629854467.71b4bff2@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Jukka K. Korpela, Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:43:36 +0300:
> 20.9.2011 21:17, Etienne Miret wrote:

> Only if the document is an XHTML document. If you take the script 
> code that was posted, wrap it inside a <script> element and put that 
> inside a minimal HTML 4.01 document, then you’ll get the error 
> message described in the original posting. And this can be fixed the 
> way I described.

Rule described here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes#h-B.3.2.1
	
]]
  the data [ snip ] ends at the first ETAGO ("</") delimiter
  followed by a name start character ([a-zA-Z]);
[[

So if the first letter after the '</' is another than [a-zA-Z], then it 
is safe to include '</' in the code. E.g. 

  this works: <script type='text/html'></ <script>
but this not: <script type='text/html'></A<script>

I did not know that </ was OK to use when not followed by the Aa-Zz 
range. Thanks for that.
-- 
Leif H Silli
Received on Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:47:03 UTC

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