Re: http://gcc.gnu.org

[vargenau at free dot fr]

En réponse à Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com>:

> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:48:51PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:

> > They are not XHTML because end tags such as </p> that were formerly
> > optional in earlier HTML versions are no longer optional.  However,
> > the pages should validate against earlier HTML DTD's, such as
> > HTML 4.0 transitional.  So:
> > 
> > Option 2: if the page contains texinfo->html output, mark it as HTML
> 4.0
> > transitional instead of as XHTML 1.0 transitional.
> 
> There's at least one problem that prevents validating as HTML 4.0.
> 
> Another possibility, perhaps, is to run the processed files through
> HTML Tidy, which cleans them up quite nicely.

Thank you for answering quickly my initial message.

I tested HTML Tidy on some of your non-validating pages, and yes, it seems
to correct the pages so that they validate.
It solves at least the problems with unclosed constructs and the
unquoted attribute values.

I would suggest to always run HTML Tidy on the pages, even if correct.
With the right options, it gives the pages a nice formatting so that they
are more readable. I always do it on my own pages.

Some pages have additional problems:
- some pages lack the DOCTYPE declaration
- in page cvs.html, there are illegal "<" and ">" characters
- in page libstdc++/ you have a misplaced <a name="download">
- in page onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/chill.html the DOCTYPE should be first
- etc.

Thank you once again to take my remarks into account.

Best regards,

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