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Bug 3692 - HTML Markup in CSS Validator messages affects Unicorn
Summary: HTML Markup in CSS Validator messages affects Unicorn
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Unicorn
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2006-09-10 12:59 UTC by Christoph Schneegans
Modified: 2009-10-01 17:16 UTC (History)
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Description Christoph Schneegans 2006-09-10 12:59:21 UTC 
<http://qa-dev.w3.org/unicorn/observe?ucn_task=css&ucn_uri=http://schneegans.de/temp/space-preserve-no-namespace.html>
brings up this error message: "The response of this observer seems to be
malformed".

Due to the issues with XHTML detection described in
<http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3626>,
<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://schneegans.de/temp/space-preserve-no-namespace.html>
throws an error that contains HTML markup.

My guess is that the CSS Validator output is not properly escaped before
processed by Unicorn.
Comment 1 Jean-Guilhem Rouel 2006-09-14 03:40:53 UTC 
Unicorn doesn't use jigsaw.w3.org, but the development version of the CSS validator.
So, the request to the CSS validator is http://qa-dev.w3.org:8001/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fschneegans.de%2Ftemp%2Fspace-preserve-no-namespace.html&usermedium=all&output=ucn
Testing this URL directly in a browser reveals a malformed XML document. Thus, this is not a bug in Unicorn (it detected that the CSS validator had a problem) but in the CSS validator itself.
Comment 2 Jean-Guilhem Rouel 2009-10-01 17:16:02 UTC 
The response from the CSS validator has been fixed