[Bug cp-tools/28012] Strange error message from appletviewer

[hendrich at informatik dot uni-hamburg dot de]

------- Comment #8 from hendrich at informatik dot uni-hamburg dot de  
2006-06-14 20:42 -------
Subject: Re:  Strange error message from appletviewer

OK; I ran my HTML through the W3C validator, which resulted in 40+ errors.

Apart from the typical lazyness (no "alt" for images etc.), it seems that
my assumption of xhtml being xml was completely false. 
Obviously, there are some special rules that certain tags (e.g. <meta> and 
<param>) neither require nor allow a closing tag. Perhaps MS was right to
ignore the W3C standards, after all?  

I removed the "closing" </param> tags that I added with the best intentions,
and the classpath appletviewer now starts the applet... 


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> Okay, so is this bug fixed/invalid?

I don't know. I guess our parser should ignore unknown tags like
<Xparam> or </param>, instead of crashing with obscure error messages.
At least the JDK and some of the major browsers handle the original page,
W3C conformity or not.

If someone wants to test the classpath parser again, I moved the original
(w3c invalid) page at:

http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/jfig/applet-nonw3c.html


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28012