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When the system identifer is unknown and returns 404, the CSS Validator returns a parse error instead of a clean error message.
Created attachment 424 [details] sample HTML document refering to a non-existent system DTD
testing the current validator against test case (Attachment 424 [details]) shows no problem. closing.