Web counter XHTML invalid

Discussion in 'Products & Tools' started by longroad, Sep 26, 2005.

  1. #1
    Any chance of making the web counter XHTML valid?
    I get several errors when validating, and Im sure if i modified the code myself it would not pass the monthly "check" that DP performs on it.
    These are my errorrs -


    # Warning Line 85 column 180: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "u".

    ...="http://count.digitalpoint.com/?f=1&u=1" alt="Free Hit Counter" style="borde

    An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by that name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in "Ampersands in URLs".

    Entity references start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;). If you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it as "&" (even inside URLs!). Be careful to end entity references with a semicolon or your entity reference may get interpreted in connection with the following text. Also keep in mind that named entity references are case-sensitive; &Aelig; and æ are different characters.

    If this error appears in some markup generated by PHP's session handling code, this article has explanations and solutions to your problem.

    Note that in most documents, errors related to entity references will trigger up to 5 separate messages from the Validator. Usually these will all disappear when the original problem is fixed.

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    # Error Line 85 column 180: general entity "u" not defined and no default entity.

    ...="http://count.digitalpoint.com/?f=1&u=1" alt="Free Hit Counter" style="borde

    This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&) in an URL or body text. See the previous message for further details.

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    # Warning Line 85 column 181: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter.

    ..."http://count.digitalpoint.com/?f=1&u=1" alt="Free Hit Counter" style="border

    If you meant to include an entity that starts with "&", then you should terminate it with ";". Another reason for this error message is that you inadvertently created an entity by failing to escape an "&" character just before this text.

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    # Warning Line 85 column 181: reference to external entity in attribute value.

    ..."http://count.digitalpoint.com/?f=1&u=1" alt="Free Hit Counter" style="border

    This is generally the sign of an ampersand that was not properly escaped for inclusion in an attribute, in a href for example. You will need to escape all instances of '&' into '&'.

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    # Error Line 85 column 181: reference to entity "u" for which no system identifier could be generated.

    ..."http://count.digitalpoint.com/?f=1&u=1" alt="Free Hit Counter" style="border

    This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&) in an URL or body text. See the previous message for further details.

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    # Info Line 85 column 179: entity was defined here.

    ...c="http://count.digitalpoint.com/?f=1&u=1" alt="Free Hit Counter" style="bord

    # Error Line 85 column 256: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.

    ...er:0px; width:88px; height:19px;"></a><br /><a href="http://www.auction-regis

    You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".
     
    longroad, Sep 26, 2005 IP