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Bug 12253 - Validator reports reports non-existent errors when parsing link use to pass data via URL
Summary: Validator reports reports non-existent errors when parsing link use to pass d...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Parser (show other bugs)
Version: HEAD
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2011-03-06 08:07 UTC by Steven Brenner
Modified: 2011-08-23 19:37 UTC (History)
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Description Steven Brenner 2011-03-06 08:07:53 UTC
Offensive HTML code:
<a href="ts-login-popup.php?height=180&width=345&modal=true" class="thickbox" title="Please Sign In">

Results: 4 Errors, 6 warning(s) 
Content-Type:	text/html
Encoding: 	utf-8	
Doctype: 	XHTML 1.0 Transitional	
Root Element: 	html
Root Namespace: 	http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml

Errors:
Line 245, Column 40: general entity "width" not defined and no default entity
Line 245, Column 45: reference to entity "width" for which no system identifier could be generated
Line 245, Column 50: general entity "modal" not defined and no default entity
Line 245, Column 55: reference to entity "modal" for which no system identifier could be generated

Warnings:
Line 245, Column 40: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "width"
Line 245, Column 45: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
Line 245, Column 45: reference to external entity in attribute value
Line 245, Column 50: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "modal"
Line 245, Column 55: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
Line 245, Column 55: reference to external entity in attribute value
Comment 1 Etienne Miret 2011-08-23 19:37:13 UTC
In the offensive HTML codes, the '&' aren’t escaped as '&amp;', thus the errors.