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How Did This Happen?

unknown html appears on one page....

Hardwood Guy

12:09 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Hi Ya Folks:

I may be newbie to websites and such but I just discovered this html on a page of mine that I have absolutely no clue as to how it got there. Should I be suspicious? I don't even know it's purpose if there is any.

Any help? Thanks, Ken:)

[w3.org...]

creative craig

12:11 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

I am not sure as to what code you are on about, can you post it please.

Craig

Nick_W

12:12 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Bet you used some kind of editor right? -- Looks like the cheeky little devil slipped that one in there....

It's just a link to the html spec. (which you can surely see?)

Nick

Hardwood Guy

12:12 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

I was just going to edit that...thanks.. Here it is

[edited by: tedster at 3:12 pm (utc) on Dec. 24, 2002]

Nick_W

12:13 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Yep, your editor..

Nick

Hardwood Guy

12:14 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

But it's only on one page and I have 60. I'm using MSFT FP if that helps. Wow, thanks for the lightning fast replies.

Nick_W

12:17 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Don'nt know the FP specifics, I'm a die hard hand coder..

If it bothers you, check out what the guys in the WYSIWYG [webmasterworld.com] forum have to say...

Nick

Hardwood Guy

12:20 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Thanks Nick. It doesn't bother me now thanks to you.

The Contractor

12:45 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Did you happen to use a picture file created in Office2K Premium program "PhotoDraw"? This is a classic example of this ;)

Hardwood Guy

1:07 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Contractor:

No I sure didn't. What purpose, if any, does this html serve?

The Contractor

1:17 pm on Dec 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

I have seen this happen when using the program mentioned above and you will also usually find a file named "filelist.xml" under the page/directory in which the file that contains the text you described above. That file will usually give you the information of why it is being used. In most cases in "PhotoDraw" it lists the layers of the files used in a graphic such as image001.jpg, image002.jpg, etc. which renders the graphic.

I hope this makes sense and look for filelist.xml as it will probably hold the answer.

ZeldaZinobop

9:35 pm on Dec 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

Because it belongs there according to your Microsoft Software. If you enter the link:

[w3.org...]

it takes you over to W3C and pulls up the HTML 4.01 Specifications page.

W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium, the people who come up with the specs you should be following when you either hand code or WYSIWYG your web pages together (HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, HTML 4.01, XML 1.0, etc.).

The above is the beginning html tag for your page. There should be some sort of DOCTYPE statement just before it. Normally it would be merely <html> but the additional material is in there to declare an XML namespace, identify how the document was produced and then finally give the URL for the HTML spec the document should follow.

For more information on XML Namespaces:

[w3.org...]

And possibly what Microsoft is attempting to do here:

[msdn.microsoft.com...]

Enjoy!