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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 "&" 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 "&" 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> |