4891 2007-07-29 13:44:48 +0000 Strange error for number enclosed in colons followed by XHTML text entity 2007-08-01 23:37:06 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator check 0.8.0 All Linux RESOLVED DUPLICATE 4892 http://www.fourmilab.ch/entrenous/validation_2007-07-29.html P3 normal --- 1 kelvin dave.null w3bugzilla www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 15955 0 kelvin 2007-07-29 13:44:48 +0000 Validating the cited URL with the 0.8.0 online Markup Validator results in the following error message: Line 12345, Column 0: &mdash; . Not only is the XHTML valid (as far as I can see), but this is only a 16 line document! The key line is the following body text (line 12) within a <p> container: :12345:&mdash; The line number reported is the number within the colons--you can change it and line number in the error report will change to the new value. I have made the following observations based on experiments: 1. Changing the text within the colons to an alphabetic sequence eliminates the error message. 2. Changing the text entity from &mdash; to a numeric entity (for example &#8810) or an entity in the US-ASCII range (for example &quot;) eliminates the error message, but changing it to a character in the ISO-8859 0xA0-0xFF range (for example &eacute;) produces the error message. 3. Adding arbitrary alphanumeric text between the second colon and the text entity does not affect the error message, nor does text including markup (for example "<b>text</b>"). 4. The error message is produced for the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD as well as the Strict. 15956 1 kelvin 2007-07-29 17:51:53 +0000 One additional observation, noted after I submitted the report: 5. While adding text or white space between the second colon and the text entity does not affect the results, moving the text entity to the next line eliminates the error message. 16002 2 w3bugzilla 2007-08-01 19:18:36 +0000 *** Bug 4904 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 16005 3 ot 2007-08-01 23:37:06 +0000 this is the same bug as Bug 4892, which is nof fixed in CVS. Testable on the dev server: http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/ *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4892 ***