HTML Validation (was Re: Clean and Unicode compliance)

From: James Kass (jameskass@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 06:07:34 EST


The HTML validation service from W3C at:

http://validator.w3.org

has been commended on this list and appears to be sophisticated
and fast.

Tests run on non-BMP text show no problem for Plane One using
UTF-8 encoding but error messages are generated when these
characters are referenced as NCRs.

Plane One support in M.S.I.E. 5.x is just the opposite, NCRs work
and UTF-8 doesn't.

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Example from a page using NCRs:

Line 117, column 9:
  ‮𐌓𐌀𐌔𐌍𐌀‬ -
           ^
Error: "66323" is not a character number in the document character set
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Best regards,

James Kass.



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