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-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/docs/users.html8
3 files changed, 58 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/errors.html b/htdocs/docs/errors.html
index 418ed3d..fa43b40 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/errors.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/errors.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: errors.html,v 1.21 2002-11-06 02:45:20 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-11-06 02:45:20 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: errors.html,v 1.22 2002-11-07 03:25:24 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-11-07 03:25:24 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="Error Explanations for The W3C MarkUp Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
they are used here with his permission.
</p>
-<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
+<div id="toc">
+<h2 id="TableOfContents">Table of Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#undef-id">
@@ -184,6 +185,8 @@ check your comment syntax</code>&rdquo;
assuming missing &lsquo;<var>BAR</var>&rsquo; start-tag</code>&rdquo;</a>
</li>
</ul>
+</div>
+
<h2>Listing of errors and their explanation</h2>
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/help.html b/htdocs/docs/help.html
index 781aab0..00a184e 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/help.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/help.html
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: help.html,v 1.8 2002-11-06 02:45:20 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-11-06 02:45:20 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: help.html,v 1.9 2002-11-07 03:25:24 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-11-07 03:25:24 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="Help for The W3C MarkUp Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
<div id="toc">
-<h2>Table of contents</h2>
+<h2 id="TableOfContents">Table of contents</h2>
<ul>
<li>About the Markup Validator
<ul>
@@ -16,11 +16,18 @@
<a href="#why-validate">Why validate?</a>
</li>
<li>
+ <a href="#who-does-validator">Who owns/maintain the Markup Validator?</a>
+ </li>
+ <li>
<a href="#others">What other validators are there?</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#how">How does The Validator work?</a>
</li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="#howto-feedback">How do I send feedback/bug reports
+ about the Markup Validator?</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Using this service
@@ -29,7 +36,7 @@
<a href="#manual">How do I use the Markup validator?</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="#errors">What are these error messages?</a>
+ <a href="#errors">What is (are) this (these) error message(s)?</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#munged-doctype">Many error messages? Don't panic.</a>
@@ -39,13 +46,17 @@
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
+ <li>Miscellaneous (Very) Frequently Asked Questions
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <a href="#faq-ampersand">The validator complains about "&amp;" in my URLs!</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
-
+</div>
<div id="skip">
-<h2 id=#about">About the Markup Validator</h2>
+<h2 id="about">About the Markup Validator</h2>
<h3 id="what-is-it">What is the Markup Validator and what does it do?</h3>
<p>
The Markup Validator is a free tool and service that checks the
@@ -77,7 +88,15 @@
sure your pages are legal HTML. The best way to do that is by
running your documents through one or more HTML validators.
</p>
-
+
+
+ <h3 id="who-does-validator">Who owns/maintain the Markup Validator?</h3>
+ <p>The Markup Validator is Maintained at <acronym
+ title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> by W3C staff and
+ benevolent collaborators, who receive a lot of help from contributors.
+ (Read the <a href="http://validator.w3.org:8001/about.html#credits">full credits</a>)
+ </p>
+
<h3 id="others">What other validators are there?</h3>
<p>
We're doing our best to provide clear and reliable results as well as
@@ -106,6 +125,9 @@
URL, passes it through <code>nsgmls</code>, and post-processes the
resulting error list for easier reading.
</p>
+
+ <h3 id="howto-feedback">How do I send feedback/bug reports about the Markup Validator?</h3>
+ <p>Read the instructions on our <a href="../feedback.html">Feedback page</a>.</p>
</div>
@@ -126,6 +148,11 @@
</p>
<h3 id="errors">What are these error messages?</h3>
+ <p>The output of the Markup Validator may be hard to decypher for
+ newcomers and experts alike, so we are maintaining a <a
+ href="http://validator.w3.org:8001/docs/errors.html">list of error
+ messages and their interpretation</a>, which should help.
+ </p>
<h3 id="munged-doctype">Many error messages? Don't panic.</h3>
<p>
@@ -152,7 +179,19 @@
<p>The Markup Validator can not do this for you. You may want to have a look
at tools such as <a href="http://tidy.sourceforge.net">HTML Tidy</a>.</p>
- </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+<h2 id="very-faq">Miscellaneous (Very) Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
+<h3 id="faq-ampersand">The validator complains about "&amp;" in my URLs!</h3>
+<p>Most probably, you should read the <a
+href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp">ampersand section</a>
+of WDG's excellent
+"<a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html">common validation problem</a>"
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
<!--#include virtual="../footer.html" -->
</body>
</html>
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/users.html b/htdocs/docs/users.html
index 739ef10..2b28caf 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/users.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/users.html
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: users.html,v 1.9 2002-11-06 02:45:20 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-11-06 02:45:20 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: users.html,v 1.10 2002-11-07 03:25:24 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-11-07 03:25:24 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="User Documentation for The W3C MarkUp Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
<div id="toc">
- <h2 id="tableofcontents">Table of contents</h2>
+ <h2 id="TableOfContents">Table of contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Quickstart">Quick Start</a></li>
<li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
<li><a href="#CommaTools">Comma Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="#Installing">Installing the Markup Validator Locally</a></li>
</ul>
-
+ </div>
<div id="Quickstart">
<h2 id="skip">Quick Start</h2>