On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:24:35AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > URI: http://www.debian.org/ > Line 249, column 4: > <P><SMALL> > ^ > Error: document type does not allow element "P" here; missing one of > "APPLET", > "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag
How not useful error message. It actually doesn't like <p> inside <font>, because tidy shows this: % tidy -eq index.en.html line 229 column 4 - Warning: missing </font> before <p> line 229 column 6 - Warning: inserting implicit <font> [snipped the <font>-is-bad-use-CSS and the other usual tidy spam] However, that's not quite straightforward to fix because all that text within <font></font> is in another file, the footer template. OTOH we could just drop the helvetica font, there's no need to have that box font same as the font in the other blue box, I just thought it would look consistent. > URI: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > Last modified: Sun Nov 19 23:36:32 2000 > Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0.3pl1 > Content length: 8755 > Character encoding: iso-8859-1 > Document type: HTML 4.0 Transitional > > Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML > parser. > Line 52, column 2: > <P><DT><A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/stable/";>View the packages > ... > ^ > Error: document type does not allow element "P" here; assuming missing > "DD" start-tag > > Line 77, column 2: > <P><DT><A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/";>View the > package ... > ^ > Error: document type does not allow element "P" here; assuming missing > "DD" start-tag That's a hack to get more spacing between subsections of text. I guess we have the same choice as with the issue recently discussed on the list: either do the same thing with some nice CSS stuff, or make a hack that would pass through HTML validity checkers. I'll do the latter, for now. BTW strictly speaking, the "View the " part needs to be removed if it's going to be a real definition (that's what <dl> is for) of stable and other distributions. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
