Dear Lynx developers, we have received the follwoing report through the bug tracking system of Debian at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/.
The bug is against version 2.4-FM-960316-1 but still present. The entire report can be viewed at http://www.infodrom.north.de/Debian/Bugs/db/38/3846.html Caveat: The URL as given in the bug report is not available anymore. Please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your replies in order to record it in that bug tracking system. There is a bug in the parsing produced by lynx, as shown below. The line marked >>>>> should not appear. (Interestingly Mosaic 2.7b4 and Netscape 2.01 each have a bug here too, but their bugs are different from lynx's even though they're the same as each other's (-:.) Ian. > chiark:~> lynx -dump http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ijackson/test-deflist.html > > test > > keyword1 >>>>> > keyword2 > paragraph > > second paragraph > > keyphrase for third para > third paragraph > > test with compact > > keyword1 > keyword2 > paragraph > > second paragraph > keyphrase for third para > third paragraph > chiark:~> <html><head> <title>Test of definition lists</title> </head><body> <h1>test</h1> <dl> <dt>keyword1 <dt>keyword2 <dd> paragraph <p> second paragraph <dt>keyphrase for third para <dd> third paragraph </dl> <h1>test with compact</h1> <dl compact> <dt>keyword1 <dt>keyword2 <dd> paragraph <p> second paragraph <dt>keyphrase for third para <dd> third paragraph </dl> </body></html> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:14:42AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Package: lynx > > Maintainer: Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 3846 lynx misdisplays multiple <dt> in <dl> > > [HELP] Is this really a bug? > > RFC 1866 (HTML 2.0) says: > > The content of a <DL> element is a sequence of <DT> elements and/or > <DD> elements, usually in pairs. Multiple <DT> may be paired with a > single <DD> element. Documents should not contain multiple > consecutive <DD> elements. > > [...] > > Unless the COMPACT attribute is present, an HTML user agent may leave > white space between successive DT, DD pairs. The COMPACT attribute > may also reduce the width of the left-hand (DT) column. > > Thus, it looks like a bug, since (by natural implication) space may be > left only between successive DT DD pairs, and multiple DT's are allowed > for a DD. The newer HTML specifications do not address this. > > This should be forwarded upstream. Which I've done now. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
