| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 |
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** |
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 897 |
| Total number of notes: | 4397 |
<dash-it-all, that's NOT an underscore!>
DOCUMENT V1.0 (BL9) LYNX doctype
I spent an hour or more overlooking the obvious to find this
error for a new DOCUMENT user:
%TAG-W-ISTHISTAG, at text on line 2 in file
DISK$03:[BOYACK.DLYNX.DLSM]TEMP.SDML;
Ignoring <TABLE. Is this a tag without a closing angle bracket?
This error is caused by any/all of the subsequent table tags
being typed with - instead of _. For example, <TABLE-ATTRIBUTES>,
<TABLE-SETUP>, <TABLE-ROW>, and results in subsequent fatal errors.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 747.1 | too little or too much | VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNER | Tue Aug 04 1987 14:04 | 29 | |
The tag translator reads as far as the "illegal" character
and then says to itself "Oops! this is not a properly
constructed tag." Then, before it IGNORES it altogther,
it says to itself, "Let's see if what we've got matches
any tag name." So it goes off and finds that <TABLE
would have been <TABLE> if it had only been closed
correctly, so it takes a chance and issues an error message.
Probably, in the next release, the error message will at
least show the illegal character, in order to highlight it.
But attempting to guess what you wanted starts us down a path
of no return.
<table-attributes> should probably be <table_attributes>
<table_attributes) should probably be <table_attributes>
<table attributes> should probably be <table_attributes>
or possible <table>, if we are not already
in a <table>...
but
if (table_variable<table_attributes) then goto foo;
should be allowed to go through without a message, right?
It's a judgement call and you have encountered the V1.0 judgement.
bill
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| 747.2 | rathole report | 3D::BOYACK | pithy...pithy...pithy | Wed Aug 05 1987 10:30 | 5 |
Sorry if I appeared to be knocking error reporting, I didn't mean
to. It seems worth while, once in a while, to post problems/solutions
to ratholes.
Joe
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