[x3d-public] Additional "]>" characters rendered in X3D 4.0 HTML output, due to non-standard DOCTYPE

Thu Jan 28 18:17:29 PST 2021

Thanks for the report.  This was a known artifact that defined a number of character entities in the HTML to permit more thorough syntax validation and also XSLT stylesheet processing of CSS styles.  The problem is cosmetic in the marked-up version and does not appear in the pristine (ballot) version.

As we finalize editor resolution of comments prior to Committee Draft (CD) submission to ISO, am hoping we can clean that up in the final WD3 draft documents.

On 1/28/2021 2:43 PM, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
> 
> 
> The latest X3D 4.0 drafts render with an additional "]>" characters at
> the beginning of every page. I attach screenshots.
> 
> This can be seen on any page, e.g. visit
> https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4-WD3/
> . In Firefox and in Google Chrome.
> 
> The effect is even weirder if you open the frame version through the
> main page. Both frames start with "]>".
> 
> Running "ant" in the repo it reports for all HTMLs:
> 
>      sound.html: Doctype given is "&#x2014;"
> 
> ... which is also a symptom of the problem.
> 
> Looking at HTML source code, every HTML starts with this non-standard
> DOCTYPE line:
> 
> """
> <!DOCTYPE html [ <!ENTITY mdash "&#x2014;"> <!ENTITY nbsp " ">
> <!ENTITY infin "∞"> <!ENTITY minus "−"> <!ENTITY pi
> "π"> <!ENTITY plusmn "±"> <!ENTITY times "×"> <!ENTITY
> le "≤"> <!ENTITY ge "≥"> <!ENTITY copy "©"> ]>
> """
> 
> So... neither Tidy, nor Firefox, nor Google Chrome understand this
> non-standard DOCTYPE in a way that was probably intended.
> 
> Can we change the DOCTYPE to be more standard? Preferably just
> simplest """<!DOCTYPE html>""" as you can see on all other web pages
> :)
> 
> Regards,
> Michalis
> 
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all the best, Don
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