On Sat, 04 May 2002 19:58:27 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:

> On Sat, 04 May 2002 17:45:12 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> F4 to edit the SRC
>> On line #95
>> character #132
>> {var strUrl;for(i=0;i<srchForm.TopNode.length; i++
>> _____________________^________
>> Remove the < symbol.
>> F2 to save and view.

>> On line #92
>> (just 3 lines higher on this page is the exact same code)
>> character #132
>> {var strUrl;for(i=0;i<srchForm.TopNode.length; i++
>> _____________________^________
>> Remove the < symbol.
>> F2 to save and view.

> Glenn,

> For the benefit of the uninitiated (like myself) could you explain
> in general terms what you are doing when you remove the "<"?

> Why does this make the page viewable with Arachne?

> Thanks in advance for clarifying this obscurity for us mortals.

What's happening is that Arachne interprets the < as being the start
of the next HTMLtag.

Since it's not, and we now have an "open tag".... everything from that
point on will not be interpreted.

To fix it, we must either remove the offending < or place a > after it
to 'close' the inadvertently opened tag.




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