Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [Invalid] Markup Validation of index.html - W3C Markup Validator_files
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-18 19:55:14
On 18 December 2013 19:20, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I've been checking the output from a documentation produced using Quickbook
>
> (after getting a clean bill of health from Boost inspect tool and Doxygen warnings-free)
It's a bit hard to comment without knowing what file these are for.
But generally speaking validation is mainly useful for hand generated
files, and even then it's not nearly as useful a check as many
believe. I don't see generating valid html as an important goal.
> There are complaints about the header L
>
> 1. Warning No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
There should be a tag in the generated html that looks like:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
And even if it isn't understood, the generated text should be all
ASCII so the default encoding should always be fine. The reason I did
it that way is because the encoding specified in the file can be
overridden by http parameters, and I don't always have control over
how the files are served, so I used the safest option.
> 2. Warning Unable to Determine Parse Mode!
This really doesn't matter, browsers always use a HTML parser unless
the http mime type tells them otherwise.
> 3. Warning No DOCTYPE found! Checking with default HTML 4.01 Transitional Document Type.
The boostbook css was written for quirks mode. adding a doctype would
cause browsers to use standards mode which makes some things look
wrong (such as tables). It would be nice to fix this, but it's not a
priority.
> 4. Info No Character encoding declared at document level
> 1. Error Line 11, Column 1: no document type declaration; implying "<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM>"
Already gone over these.
> 2. Error Line 14, Column 7: end tag for "HEAD" which is not finished
This one is odd. Do you have a title tag? Or maybe it just doesn't
understand that some tags are self closing.
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