On 11/21/2009 5:21 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 11/21/2009 8:08 AM, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: >> /Paul B. Gallagher/: >>> Cedar wrote: >>> >>>> When I go to this website with SM 2: www.cattlenetwork.com, I get the >>>> following error message: >>>> >>>> XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </meta>. >>>> (...) >>>> >>>> Any ideas what this might be about? If someone else would be so kind >>>> as to try this website and see if you get the same would be appreciated. >>> Yes, I get it too, with SM 1.1.16. >>> >>> The point of the message is that if you have a <meta> tag you must also >>> have a </meta> tag (that's what "mismatched" means -- it's like having >>> an opening parenthesis without a closing parenthesis). When the parser >>> reaches the </head> tag, it gives up. >> In HTML the META element doesn't have an end tag. However they >> serve the page explicitly specifying 'Content-Type: >> application/xhtml+xml' which makes the browser use an XML parser. >> Seems they sniff on the 'User-Agent' request header and serve >> different 'Content-Type' depending on the browser, as I don't get >> problem using Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and Opera 10. >> >>> Not your fault, not your browser's fault, though I suppose some might >>> say the browser should overlook this error. Internet Exploiter does. >> Internet Explorer doesn't understand XHTML. It parses it as regular >> tag-soup HTML. >> > > Hmm. The server is sniffing for the UA string. When I spoof Firefox > 3.5, I can readily view the page. When I don't spoof at all, I see > Cedar's original problem. > > The interesting thing is that, when I send the URI to the W3C validator > at <http://validator.w3.org/>, it reports 762 XHTML errors. When I > spoof Firefox 3.5, view and copy the source, and paste it into the W3C > validator, it reports 787 XHTML errors, 25 more than for just the URI. > > All this merely reaffirms the old saying: "Garbage in equals garbage > out." I might submit a Tech Evangelism bug report. >
This is now bug #530359 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530359>. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
