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Mircea Sandu
Mircea Sandu

Reputation: 926

Is there a way to validate a website as html4 using facebook scripts?

I am using Facebook Like box and Facebook Comments on my website, but when I use the validator at http://validator.w3.org/ I get the following errors:

general entity "appId" not defined and no default entity

reference to entity "appId" for which no system identifier could be generated

I have seen that declaring the DOCTYPE as HTML5, these errors disappear but a bunch of other errors appear, is there a way around this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 354

Answers (2)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943650

general entity "appId" not defined and no default entity. reference to entity "appId" for which no system identifier could be generated

This usually means that you are using an & as data when it means "Start of character reference or entity". If you want to mean & say &.

Upvotes: 2

user2019515
user2019515

Reputation: 4503

If you want to make your HTML valid then I'd recommend using the HTML5 doctype: <!DOCTYPE html> this will be easier and it will be a lot nicer against plugins like the facebook like box, twitter stream etc.

However, why worry so much about HTML validation in the first place? It's no big deal.

Upvotes: 0

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