Ugh the mailto: breaks it? Seems like a bug to me. Maybe the javadoc parser tries to validate the content of an href attribute?
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 5:39 AM Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello and Merry Christmas, > > I discovered this odd javac behavior with jdk8 up to jdk15 (didn't > check the latest head). This source file (note the anchor tag over > multiple lines): > > /** > * Lucene internals or asking for help on <a > * href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > </a> > */ > public class Breaks {} > > When compiled with > > javac -Xdoclint:all/protected Breaks.java > > generates this: > > Breaks.java:2: error: malformed HTML > * Lucene internals or asking for help on <a > ^ > Breaks.java:3: error: bad use of '>' > * href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > </a> > ^ > Breaks.java:3: error: unexpected end tag: </a> > * href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > </a> > ^ > What's interesting is that the following two alternatives compile just > fine: > > /** > * Lucene internals or asking for help on <a > * href="http://lucene.apache.org";>[email protected]</a> > */ > public class Passes {} > > /** > * Lucene internals or asking for help on <a > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a> > to figure out why. > */ > public class Passes2 {} > > Is it just me or all these should compile just fine?... > > Dawid > > [1] Just in case mail clients attempt to reformat the pasted examples, > here's a gist with > the sources: > https://gist.github.com/dweiss/c1c9f218c6a8e5d2f253193806a9f472 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
