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I am trying to lessen the errors shown by W3C validation on my backup-copy of the html homepage. I know I cannot remove all of them.  I have a UBB 7.1.1 forum. I post news from the forum on my homepage by linking to specific forum threads. I get these warnings and errors on W3c validation: Warning Line 129 column 86: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "Number".
...om/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=163506"> Error Line 129 column 86: general entity "Number" not defined and no default entity.
...om/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=163506"> Error Line 129 column 92: reference to entity "Number" for which no system identifier could be generated.
...um/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=163506"> How can I correct these? Thanks.
Last edited by mag; 06/25/2007 10:06 AM.
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I'm pretty sure that first error and second error are because & isn't written as &
As for the third, i think it's also due to the & before Number.
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Thank you very much, Gizmo. It is appreciated.
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The &'s are a bugger that are a bit difficult to fix.
I also spend some time making everything more xhtml w3c ok this week. Afer we upgrade to 7.2 I want to continue with fresh original templates.
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Turning on spider-friendly urls will at least hide those ampersand errors 
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So what is the root cause of them and why can't the core code of UBBT be altered to use a more Web friendly alternate?
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hardcoded structure; and it's not like it can't be updated, but theres a lot of areas to update
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hardcoded structure; and it's not like it can't be updated, but theres a lot of areas to update Well if that's the case then maybe time for some RegEx hehe
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7.3 should have far less validation errors. I went through every public template fixing the issues, and I got in a url function that assures no link will ever be invalid again. The only thing we can't guarantee will validate are the posts made by users
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assuming the posts are run through htmlspecialchars, a lot of the content should be pushed out as valid as possible Great work on all of the validation though Ian; I know a lot of site owners who'll bow at your feet for that
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Oh, that stuff gets pumped out as valid, unforunately we can't expect users to understand proper nesting.
[b][i]Test[/b][/i] results in a validation error . It's the same for every other forum software, as we'd require a complex token tree to even come close to compensating for that stuff. I know CC had that before, but the code never got checked in.
That and the issue with people doing
[i][quote]test[/quote][/i], putting block level elements inside of inline elements.
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Ahh yes, nesting could be a problem indeed... At least those are miniscule compared to larger problems that you fixed with validity 
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