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The following errors are not critical to the function of the validator, but cause countless lines of error output to apache's error log. They should be fixed/muted. # cat error.log | grep "[error]" | sed 's/.*client.*] //' | sed 's|, referer: http://validator.w3.org/||' | head -100000 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head 63640 check: Use of uninitialized value $line in length at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 1720. 26691 check: Use of uninitialized value $line in length at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 1727. 1735 check: substr outside of string at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 2040. 1735 check: substr outside of string at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 2016. 1590 check: Use of uninitialized value $line in length at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 1739. 1531 check: Use of uninitialized value $line in substr at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 1739. 952 File does not exist: /usr/local/validator/htdocs/favicon.ico 171 check: Use of uninitialized value $line in substr at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 1747. 171 check: substr outside of string at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 1742. 170 check: Use of uninitialized value $line in length at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 1724. Line numbers relevant only to 0.8.4 release
(In reply to comment #0) > 63640 check: Use of uninitialized value $line in length at > /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 1720. > 26691 check: Use of uninitialized value $line in length at > /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 1727. These two seem to be particularly acute for cases of errors in DTD (*cough* SVG 1.1 Basic *cough*) where the parser reports errors at line numbers beyond the number of lines in the actual document. Fixing this with a test on whether the document is actually that long. Also fixing a couple of similar issues in the detection of doctypeless documents.