From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 05:55:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5502D1065675 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 05:55:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raghu@mri.ernet.in) Received: from hrimail.hri.res.in (hrimail.hri.res.in [210.212.50.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788BC8FC18 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 05:55:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raghu@mri.ernet.in) Received: from ipc2.mri.ernet.in (unknown [192.168.3.2]) by hrimail.hri.res.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2407F97E4A; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:31:53 +0530 (IST) Received: from ipc2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ipc2 (Postfix) with SMTP id BC3601D2D0; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:25:09 +0530 (IST) Received: from riemann.mri.ernet.in (riemann.mri.ernet.in [192.168.3.122]) by ipc2.mri.ernet.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917AE13D3F; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:25:09 +0530 (IST) Received: from riemann.mri.ernet.in (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riemann.mri.ernet.in (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m4V5nYn9095646; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:19:34 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from raghu@riemann.mri.ernet.in) Received: (from raghu@localhost) by riemann.mri.ernet.in (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m4V5nV44095645; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:19:31 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from raghu) From: "N. Raghavendra" To: Gary Kline In-Reply-To: <20080531042858.GA23329@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Fri, 30 May 2008 21:28:58 -0700") References: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> <4a89d1190805290039k1f2dedb1he342b4a83d7453a6@mail.gmail.com> <200805291305.22567.kline@thought.org> <20080529220536.GA39115@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20080530023902.GF62524@thought.org> <20080530204950.GA43574@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20080531042858.GA23329@thought.org> X-Organization: Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) X-Address: Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211 019, India X-URL: http://www.mri.ernet.in/ and http://www.retrotexts.net/ X-Phone: +91 (532) 2667 509, 2667 318, 2667 578, 2567 746, 2567 747 X-Fax: +91 (532) 2667 576, 2567 748, 2567 444, 2568 036 X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0x03618806 X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: C75D D0AF 457E 7454 BEC2 37AD C6E1 0407 0361 8806 X-OpenPGP-Public-Key-Available-At: http://www.keyserver.net/ Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 11:19:30 +0530 Message-ID: <867idbc9at.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "N. Raghavendra" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 05:55:41 -0000 At 2008-05-30T21:28:58-07:00, Gary Kline wrote: > Any guesses why things like this blowup:: > > The quoted string above is the so-called Formal Public Identifier (FPI) of the DTD, i.e., the "standard", that your HTML page claims to conform to. However, the format of the FPI in your page is wrong. For instance, "dtd" should be the upper case "DTD", and the ISO 639 language code "en" should be the upper case "EN". In addition, the entire FPI is case-sensitive, so "Transitional" is different from "transitional". The recommended FPI for W3C HTML 4.0 Transitional is "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN". So, the above line should read Better still, follow the normal practice of writing "doctype" and "public" in upper case, and eliminating unnecessary whitespace, and make it At 2008-05-29T19:39:02-07:00, Gary Kline wrote: > I still have unread messages down-queue, but may as well ask if > there are any HTML/XML checkers in ports that would help validate my > mark. See my message earlier in this thread, where I mentioned textproc/opensp, and how to use it. In fact, the W3C validator is based on OpenSP, see http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#how Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information.