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Bug 102 - serialize_table may emit invalid XHTML
Summary: serialize_table may emit invalid XHTML
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: check (show other bugs)
Version: 0.6.1
Hardware: Other other
: P3 minor
Target Milestone: 0.6.2
Assignee: Terje Bless
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Reported: 2002-12-02 16:22 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2002-12-03 02:03 UTC (History)
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Description Ville Skyttä 2002-12-02 16:22:30 UTC 
serialize_table will emit invalid XHTML if the passed-in table has no rows. 
Fixing it to just "return ()", ie. an empty list if no rows given seems obvious,
but I haven't checked if it has side effects.  And that fix is 0.6-branch
specific, dunno ATM if the new template code is affected.

Reported by Nick Waterman in
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Dec/0011.html>
Comment 1 Terje Bless 2002-12-02 21:03:51 UTC 
The fix for Bug #101 also takes care of this. It is a bug if &serialize_table is
ever called without any rows in the passed in table.

Besides, the template code makes this issue moot.