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Whenever the CSS parser of the validator finds HTML-style comments <!-- ... or other similar syntax (doctype declaration too), the parser trips up and throws the (wrong) exception ServletException: Timed out. Debug info in console says: « Exception in thread "servlet-runner:1" org.w3c.css.parser.analyzer.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column 3. Encountered: "d" (100), after : "<!" at org.w3c.css.parser.analyzer.CssParserTokenManager.getNextToken(CssParserTokenManager.java:4032) at org.w3c.css.parser.analyzer.CssParser.jj_ntk(CssParser.java:3766) at org.w3c.css.parser.analyzer.CssParser.parserUnit(CssParser.java:337) » Jean-Gui is looking into it: it seems to have been created by a fix [1] for bug [2] 2919. Fixing appears to be tricky. [1]http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2002/css-validator/org/w3c/css/parser/analyzer/CssParser.jj?rev=1.18&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup [2]http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2919
Created attachment 455 [details] servlet trace full stack trace from a similar case.
*** Bug 4349 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed by adding a special case in the grammar. See http://qa-dev.w3.org:8001/