Hi,
Since I made a post whose title included double-quotes on my
WordPress-powered site, the W3C's validator has been whining at me:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nickfitz.co.uk%2F>
because the page now contains double-quote-delimited "title"
attributes whose value, from the validator's point of view, includes
double-quotes.
However, the actual source contains the relevant numeric character
references (“ and ”), not the quote characters themselves.
From my reading of the relevant part of the spec:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2>
the words "Authors may also use numeric character references to
represent double quotes" suggest that the validator is wrong to treat
the quotes in the "title" attributes as quotes - it could be said to
have parsed them too early, if you will.
Does anybody agree that this is a bug in the validator (in which case
I'll file a bug report), or am I missing something?
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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