[WM] validator.w3.org vs webmake

[Justin Mason]

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Wes Meltzer writes:
>Luca 'NERvOus' Gibelli wrote, on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 9:38 AM +0100:
>
>>Hi,
>>I downloaded webmake 2 weeks ago and was amazed by its flexibility.
>>I took a few hours to write my first index.wmk, but after that, I could
>>write many pages very quickly.
>>With common web editors it would take a lot of time to write _each_
>>page...
>>
>>However, I have some problems with w3's html validator.
>>You can see the output here:
>>http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clamav.net%2Fnewsite%2Fmain.html
>>
>>One of the most common error was on <P> tags. w3 reported the following
>>suggestion:
>
>I assume you were using the EtText formatting option?
>
>If that was the case, then yes, this is a known problem about which I have complained no small number of times myself. EtText pages don't validate, the vast majority of the time, and this is an annoyance for someone who prides himself on his valid XHTML (1.1).
>
>Just be patient; Justin's said that this is on the to-do list. I would have fixed it myself, but I'm not much of a programmer.

Remind me again about this one?   Is it from EtText?

I'm seeing this:

- ------start sample EtText--------
Sequences will be rewritten appropriately.   The folder will also be "packed",
as if 'folder -pack' had been run; see folder(1).

RESULTS
- -------

Here's some sample output from scan(1), after threading the folder:
- ------end sample EtText--------

- ------start output--------
      <p>
        Sequences will be rewritten appropriately. The folder will also be "packed",
        as if 'folder -pack' had been run; see folder(1).
        
      </p>
      <a name="RESULTS" id="RESULTS"><h1>RESULTS</h1></a><p>
        Here's some sample output from scan(1), after threading the folder:
        
      </p>
- ------end output--------

Which seems to be working.  Is there another form that's not?

BTW, another of my "pet peeves" about WM output validity, is that the HTML
cleaner will put an XML-style closing slash on standalone tags like "<br />".
This is appropriate for XHTML, but not for HTML 4, and it'd be nice to fix it
too.  I always seem to get errors from the validator about that one.

PS: I like the new clamav logo! ;)

- --j.
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