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combenetorg · 11-01-2006, 06:26 AM

s the validator at fault?

I wrote a script that grabs quite a bit of data to pass as post data to a PHP script via ajax. When I tried to validate the page, I got all kinds of errors about ampersand entities. Obviously, replacing them with & will make the data request NOT work, so is this a fault with the validator (i.e. the document IS valid) or is there some other way I should be doing this?

Here's a mini-example with GET:

html4strict Code:

1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
2. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
3. <head>
4. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
5. <title>Validator Test</title>
6. <script type="text/javascript">
7.
8. var exampleGetString;
9. exampleGetString = "?somedata=1";
10. exampleGetString += "&failedvalidation=1";
11.

12. </script>
13. </head>
14.

15. <body>
16. </body>
17. </html>

Guilty · 11-01-2006, 06:54 AM

It's kinda your fault. As xhtml, you need to declare the script to be cdata.
Code:

<script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ var exampleGetString; exampleGetString = "?somedata=1"; exampleGetString += "&failedvalidation=1"; //]]> </script>

The browser doesn't care, because it's treating the doc as html, but the validator takes you at your word. Even if validating html, it's probably a good idea to enclose the script within comment tags. Not sure on the last, as I haven't written an html page in ages.

cheers,

11-01-2006, 06:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
combenetorg Member Counter-Terrorist Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 233	XHTML Validator Bug? s the validator at fault? I wrote a script that grabs quite a bit of data to pass as post data to a PHP script via ajax. When I tried to validate the page, I got all kinds of errors about ampersand entities. Obviously, replacing them with & will make the data request NOT work, so is this a fault with the validator (i.e. the document IS valid) or is there some other way I should be doing this? Here's a mini-example with GET: html4strict Code: 1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 2. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 3. <head> 4. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> 5. <title>Validator Test</title> 6. <script type="text/javascript"> 7. 8. var exampleGetString; 9. exampleGetString = "?somedata=1"; 10. exampleGetString += "&failedvalidation=1"; 11. 12. </script> 13. </head> 14. 15. <body> 16. </body> 17. </html>

11-01-2006, 06:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
Guilty Member Hostage Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 39	Re: XHTML Validator Bug? It's kinda your fault. As xhtml, you need to declare the script to be cdata. Code: <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ var exampleGetString; exampleGetString = "?somedata=1"; exampleGetString += "&failedvalidation=1"; //]]> </script> The browser doesn't care, because it's treating the doc as html, but the validator takes you at your word. Even if validating html, it's probably a good idea to enclose the script within comment tags. Not sure on the last, as I haven't written an html page in ages. cheers,

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