From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 21:33:12 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 DC6131065688 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 21:33:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFF58FC16 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 21:33:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethos.thought.org (ethos.thought.org [10.47.0.180]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4VLX7Y7093096; Sat, 31 May 2008 14:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) From: Gary Kline To: "N. Raghavendra" In-Reply-To: <867idbc9at.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> 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> <867idbc9at.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 14:33:02 -0700 Message-Id: <1212269582.13063.96.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 21:33:13 -0000 On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 11:19 +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: > 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 > Thanks much. This morning (or afternoon!) I'm replying using Evolution that makes clicking on links easier. There are a bunch of URL's I have to study. About the *only* place I use all caps is in my markup. I didn't know until now that the doctype//DOCTYPE tag **had** to be in caps. I don't see any rational for this exception, but am v glad to learn it!! I have your earlier mail and will re-read as well as check out textproc/opensp. gary PS:: to the list: Late last night I used tidy and tidy -h, so now have yet another tool in my bag:-) ...If there atr any books or websites on how to create a nice SIMPLE page, URL's please. (i Don't think "design" can be taught; that's like trying to teach "art", isn't it?) --g > Raghavendra. >