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authorville <ville@localhost>2007-04-02 10:20:26 +0000
committerville <ville@localhost>2007-04-02 10:20:26 +0000
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: errors.html,v 1.37 2006-11-15 08:02:46 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-15 08:02:46 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: errors.html,v 1.38 2007-04-02 10:20:26 ville Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2007-04-02 10:20:26 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="Error Explanations for The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
@@ -77,12 +77,17 @@
<dd><div class="ve mid-63">
<p>
You have used character data somewhere it is not permitted to appear.
- Mistakes that can cause this error include putting text directly in the
- body of the document without wrapping it in a container element (such as
- a &lt;p&gt;aragraph&lt;/p&gt;) or forgetting to quote an attribute value
- (where characters such as "%" and "/" are common, but cannot appear
- without surrounding quotes).
+ Mistakes that can cause this error include:
</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>putting text directly in the body of the document without wrapping
+ it in a container element (such as a &lt;p&gt;aragraph&lt;/p&gt;), or</li>
+ <li>forgetting to quote an attribute value
+ (where characters such as "%" and "/" are common, but cannot appear
+ without surrounding quotes), or</li>
+ <li>using XHTML-style closing tags (such as &lt;meta ... /&gt;) in HTML 4.01 or
+ earlier. (Fix: remove the extra / character)</li>
+ </ul>
</div>
<p>
<a href="../feedback.html?errmsg_id=63#errormsg"
@@ -231,7 +236,7 @@
or "&lt;marquee&gt;" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve
the desired effect instead).</li>
<li>by using upper-case tags in XHTML (in XHTML attributes and elements
- must be all lower-case.</li>
+ must be all lower-case).</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>
@@ -252,7 +257,7 @@
</p>
<p>
If this error occured in a script section of your document, you should probably
- read this <a href="http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-javascript">FAQ entry</a>.
+ read this <a href="help.html#faq-javascript">FAQ entry</a>.
</p>
</div>
<p>
@@ -337,7 +342,7 @@
check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or
use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the
&lt;embed&gt; element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the
- <a href="docs/help.html#faq-flash">FAQ item on valid flash</a>.
+ <a href="help.html#faq-flash">FAQ item on valid flash</a>.
</p>
</div>
<p>
@@ -545,11 +550,14 @@
Your best bet is to replace the character with the nearest equivalent
ASCII character, or to use an appropriate <a
href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html">character
- entity</a>. For more information on Character Encoding on the web, see <a
- href="http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/aflavell.html">Alan
+ entity</a>.
+ <!-- http://groups.google.com/group/uk.net.web.authoring/browse_frm/thread/54c97b9c6fb89751
+ For more information on Character Encoding on the web, see <a
+ href="http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/aflavell.html">Alan
Flavell</a>'s excellent <a
- href="http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/charset/">HTML Character Set Issues</a>
- reference.
+ href="http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/charset/">HTML Character
+ Set Issues</a> reference.
+ -->
</p>
<p>
This error can also be triggered by formatting characters embedded in