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diff --git a/htdocs/docs/errors.html b/htdocs/docs/errors.html index 4eb7a15..e25e2a5 100755 --- a/htdocs/docs/errors.html +++ b/htdocs/docs/errors.html @@ -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 <p>aragraph</p>) 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 <p>aragraph</p>), 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 <meta ... />) 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 "<marquee>" (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 <embed> 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 |