Posted by The Bicycling Guitarist on 07/27/07 05:49

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-552C1D.15151927072007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <bZeqi.291$0J2.122@newsfe03.lga>,
> "The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris@TheBicyclingGuitarist.net>
> wrote:
>
>> The htmlhelp online validator used to just check this xml file for
>> "well-formedness" if I remember rightly. However, now it says that with
>> no
>> doctype declared it is assuming html 4.01 transitional and error after
>> error
>> is reported.
>>
>> How do I fix this? the page is at
>> www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/labels.xml
>> It's been unchanged since January 2006. It's the VALIDATOR that has
>> changed
>> how it regards this file. What should I do, please?
>
> Stop kidding. That's my job around here.
>
> --
I'm not kidding. The htmlhelp validator for whatever reason isn't treating
this page the way it did last week and for the past year and a half. I
routinely check 100 pages at a time with that validator, and until now it
always passed.
The w3.org validator passes this page, but says there is a character
encoding mismatch because the page has a meta tag specifying iso-8859-1 and
my server is sending utf-8 that overrides this (I just recently (july 20)
finally had the i.s.p. server declare utf-8 after being aware of the problem
for four years). Should I change the iso-8859-1 in the labels.xml document
to UTF-8? Does case matter? should it be UTF-8 or utf-8 for an xml document.
Do xml documents have doctypes? what should this one be? I am using it as
supplied by the folks at ICRA back in January 2006.

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