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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

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

783.0. "VBAR and >" by TREK::WATERS (Lester Waters) Mon Aug 10 1987 14:19

    %TAG-F-VBARINARG, at tag <TABLE_HEADS> on line 102 in file
       USERA$:[WATERS.WRKD.ISS.DOC]ISS.SDML;
       A vertical bar was found in argument 4 to tag <TABLE_HEADS>.
       Use the <VBAR> tag to code a vertical bar in an argument
    
    
    That was the error message: this was the erroneous line:
    
    	<TABLE_HEADS>(Version\Date\Description\Who>
    						  ^
    					here is the error... not a vertical
    					bar.

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783.1 trying to guess what's wrong. VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNER Mon Aug 10 1987 16:05 19

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783.1	trying to guess what's wrong.	VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNER		`Mon Aug 10 1987 16:05`	19
	YOu are correct, the error is the > instead of ). BUT, the tag translator can't tell that the > is supposed to be a ). So it keeps reading, looking for the ). When it finds a vertical bar (I bet you had a little diagram with a box drawn with \|, +, and - characters), it starts looking for a matching ampersand, because those are special characters in argument lists. WHen it hits the end of the file, still looking for the ampersand to match with the FIRST of those vertical bars, it says, "GOlly, something is wrong. I wonder if it is a vertical bar that was not coded with <vbar>, or a missing parenthesis, or a missing ampersand to match the real vertical bar?" Well, it KNOWS that it saw a vertical bar, so it reports what it KNOWS, rather than what it might GUESS to be the error. THe explanation in the V1.0 User's Guide, explains that the problem might be a missing closing parenthesis on an argument list. bill

    YOu are correct, the error is the > instead of ).
    
    BUT, the tag translator can't tell that the > is supposed to
    be a ).  So it keeps reading, looking for the ).  When it finds
    a vertical bar (I bet you had a little diagram with a box drawn
    with |, +, and - characters), it starts looking for a matching
    ampersand, because those are special characters in argument lists.
    WHen it hits the end of the file, still looking for the ampersand
    to match with the FIRST of those vertical bars, it says,
    
    "GOlly, something is wrong.  I wonder if it is a vertical bar that
    was not coded with <vbar>, or a missing parenthesis, or a missing
    ampersand to match the real vertical bar?"  Well, it KNOWS that
    it saw a vertical bar, so it reports what it KNOWS, rather than
    what it might GUESS to be the error.  THe explanation in the V1.0
    User's Guide, explains that the problem might be a missing closing
    parenthesis on an argument list.
    
    bill