From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 26 8:59:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B195B37B401; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:59:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC7843EC5; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:59:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from moble.pittgoth.com (acs-24-154-229-196.zoominternet.net [24.154.229.196]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBQGxpNN005792; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:59:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:00:17 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Hiten Pandya Cc: grog@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bad vinum html page Message-Id: <20021226120017.58f27d73.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com> References: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:36:05 +0000 Hiten Pandya wrote: > > I am surprised why the validator doesn't pick this up. If you > explicitily select `HTML 4.01 Transistional' from the option box > (http://validator.w3.org/), then it shows 12 errors, all to do > with URLs of type: > > "http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vinum&sektion=8" > > This can be solved by using single quotes e.g: , > because the &sektion is thought of as an entity by the parser. > Either that, or the validator is broken -- which is very unlikely. > On that note, it makes me wonder why we use `sektion' and not > 'section'? :-) > > One more thing, we should encode the document char-set type, so that > the validator can work with our documents: > > > > I've been meaning to switch generation from HTML to XHTML, but perhaps that needs review by the doceng entity... This may be better from a 'technological' point of view, but may hurt older browsers like Netscape 4*. -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message