* [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error
@ 2007-09-27 3:59 Philip Webb
2007-09-27 4:10 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ? Philip Webb
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From: Philip Webb @ 2007-09-27 3:59 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo User
I downloaded the Gentoo User Guide to read the install section
prior to planning installation of Gentoo on my new machine.
Dillo has no problem opening the file (Lynx can't read XML),
but Epiphany, Firefox & Konqueror all refuse with an XML error :
XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </link>.
Location: file:///home/purslow/cr/gentoo/anb3/handbook-x86.xml
Line Number 12, Column 226:
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://www.gentoo.org/search/archives-gentoo-org.xml" title="Gentoo List Archives"><title>Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook</title></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff">
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The pointer is under the 'h' of 'head' on my screen.
I am amazed to find an error in a Gentoo doc, esp one like this.
Can anyone offer advice ?
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?
2007-09-27 3:59 [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error Philip Webb
@ 2007-09-27 4:10 ` Philip Webb
2007-09-29 7:47 ` Walter Dnes
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From: Philip Webb @ 2007-09-27 4:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo User
Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes,
I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem.
Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events ?
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?
2007-09-27 4:10 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ? Philip Webb
@ 2007-09-29 7:47 ` Walter Dnes
2007-09-29 20:34 ` Philip Webb
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From: Walter Dnes @ 2007-09-29 7:47 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
> Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes,
> I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem.
> Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events ?
WAD (Working As Designed). With HTML, the philosophy is that the
parser tries to carry on, even with lots of errors in the HTML code.
XML is much stricter, and an error is much more likely to be treated as
fatal... sorta like the gcc "pedantic" option.
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> SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca
> ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies
> TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
Just don't complain about having to keep Nanticoke running to power
"clean electric transit". TANSTAAFL
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?
2007-09-29 7:47 ` Walter Dnes
@ 2007-09-29 20:34 ` Philip Webb
2007-09-30 20:30 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
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From: Philip Webb @ 2007-09-29 20:34 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
070929 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
>> Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes,
>> I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem.
>> Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events ?
> With HTML, the philosophy is that the parser tries to carry on,
> even with lots of errors in the HTML code. XML is much stricter
> and an error is much more likely to be treated as fatal.
Well in that case (raises eyebrows), one has to ask
(1) why does Gentoo offer its docs in such a strict format
& (2) why there is a bug in the XML sufficient to stall the browsers.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?
2007-09-29 20:34 ` Philip Webb
@ 2007-09-30 20:30 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
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From: Hans-Werner Hilse @ 2007-09-30 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hi,
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:34:19 -0400
Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
> >> Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes,
> >> I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem.
> >> Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events ?
> > With HTML, the philosophy is that the parser tries to carry on,
> > even with lots of errors in the HTML code. XML is much stricter
> > and an error is much more likely to be treated as fatal.
>
> Well in that case (raises eyebrows), one has to ask
> (1) why does Gentoo offer its docs in such a strict format
It offers it in text/html (MIME type as transmitted by the web server)
> & (2) why there is a bug in the XML sufficient to stall the browsers.
It's not XML (there's no real "file name extension" concept in URI-land).
You probably saved it under a file name resembling the URI, thus
leading your browser to the assumption it might be XML - and it has to
make assumptions for file:// requests, since there's no "Content-Type"
on plain file systems. The conceptual failure is the part that
circumvents this (unreliable) detection algorithm by saving that file
by a name ending in ".xml" (my browser doesn't even offer ".xml" as a
preset for the file format when trying to save the HTML page of the
user guide).
-hwh
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