2440 2005-11-03 19:26:14 +0000 Comments not properly handled 2005-11-03 19:42:07 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator Parser HEAD PC Windows XP RESOLVED INVALID P2 normal --- 1 edmulroy link www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 7018 0 edmulroy 2005-11-03 19:26:14 +0000 This gives an error: ============================== <tr> <td><a href="http://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/">Training</a></td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td class="note" colspan="2">---Manuals---</td> </tr> ============================== I believe that it is incorrectly handling a comment. The error text is: ============================== Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser. Error Line 183 column 33: invalid comment declaration: found name character outside comment but inside comment declaration. <td class="note" colspan="2">---Manuals---</td> Info Line 181 column 0: comment declaration started here. <!-- Error Line 183 column 34: character data is not allowed here. <td class="note" colspan="2">---Manuals---</td> You have used character data somewhere it is not permitted to appear. Mistakes that can cause this error include putting text directly in the body of the document without wrapping it in a container element (such as a <p>aragraph</p>) or forgetting to quote an attribute value (where characters such as "%" and "/" are common, but cannot appear without surrounding quotes). ---More errors follow such as complaints about the ending </td> ============================== The file being parsed is HTML 4.01 Transitional. 7019 1 link 2005-11-03 19:42:07 +0000 An SGML comment declaration is <! -- comment #1 -- -- Comment #2 -->; it is not a typical "quoted string" that happens to be delimited by "<!--" and "-->". IOW, never put things like "---Manuals---" inside an SGML comment; the hyphens are significant.