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Thu, 12/17/2009 - 17:57 — hutcheson

I've been trying to use the W3C XML validator to check a new text, but I keep getting messages like "could not get "/dtd/HTMLspecialx.ent" from "ccel.org" (reason given was "Service Temporarily Unavailable")".

The last two books I validated were Canada-only, so it's probably been 6-8 weeks since I last tried this (and it worked then.)

Is something wrong with the CCEL dtd directory?


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Sat, 12/19/2009 - 05:28 — hplantin

I just tried it and it seemed to work. Try again?
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Harry Plantinga
CCEL Director

Sat, 12/19/2009 - 20:51 — hutcheson

# Error Line 79, Column 2: could not get "/dtd/html-lists.mod" from "www.ccel.org" (reason given was "Service Temporarily Unavailable")

source { display:block; text-align:right; font-size:75%; }

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# Error Line 80, Column 2: could not get "/dtd/html-blocktext.mod" from "www.ccel.org" (reason given was "Service Temporarily Unavailable")

argument { display:block; text-align:center; font-size:90%; }

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# Error Line 81, Column 2: could not get "/dtd/html-object.mod" from "www.ccel.org" (reason given was "Service Temporarily Unavailable")

verse { display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; }

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# Error Line 82, Column 2: could not get "/dtd/html-img.mod" from "www.ccel.org" (reason given was "Service Temporarily Unavailable")

verse .vn { text-align:center; margin-bottom:1em; }

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# Error Line 83, Column 2: could not get "/dtd/html-forms.mod" from "www.ccel.org" (reason given was "Service Temporarily Unavailable")

l { display:block; text-align:left; margin-left:0em;

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# Error Line 84, Column 2: could not get "/dtd/html-tables.mod" from "www.ccel.org" (reason given was "Service Temporarily Unavailable")

margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; }

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# Error Line 85, Column 2: could not get "/dtd/html-base.mod" from "www.ccel.org" (reason given was "Service Temporarily Unavailable")

vn { display:block; margin-left:-2em; float:left; }
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I tried www.ccel.org and ccel.org both, with the same results.

The "text from the line" happens to be plucked out of the middle of a block of CSS: which is a problem in the W3C process, it shows line ### from the file being validated even when (as I believe) the problem is with the same line# in one of the DTD files. I played around with the source to confirm that those lines aren't relevant.

Sat, 12/26/2009 - 21:13 — hutcheson

I should add, I tried re-validating one of the two books I had validated successfully in November--this time around, it failed in the same way as the new book.

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