[oXygen-user] validation problem for CODE element in docbook 5?

[Radu Coravu]

Hi Robert,

The error complains that the XML tag <meta> is not allowed in <code>. 
This is correct.
If you actually want to enter some random HTML fragment inside the 
<code> the fragment needs to be escaped like:

<para> <code> &lt;meta content=&quot;Home Page for Dick Solomon.&quot;
             name=&quot;description&quot; /&gt;
</code></para>

or surrounded in CDATA like:
<para> <code><![CDATA[ <meta content="Home Page for Dick Solomon."
             name="description" />]]>
</code></para>

so that it gets interpreted as plain text.

Regards,
Radu

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Radu Coravu
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On 4/1/2010 3:38 PM, Robert Nagle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm creating a docbook 5 document in the latest Oxygen, and got a
> strange validation error.
>
> Here is what I wrote:
>
>            <para>  <code>     <meta content="Home Page for Dick Solomon."
> name="description" />
>                  </code></para>
>
> Here is the error message I receive:
>
> SystemID: I:\My Documents\work-related\\quickguide.xml
> Engine name: Jing
> Severity: error
> Description: element "meta" not allowed anywhere; expected the element
> end-tag, text or element "alt", "anchor", "annotation", "biblioref",
> "classname", "exceptionname", "function", "indexterm", "initializer",
> "inlinemediaobject", "interfacename", "link", "methodname",
> "modifier", "olink", "ooclass", "ooexception", "oointerface",
> "parameter", "phrase", "remark", "replaceable", "returnvalue",
> "subscript", "superscript", "type", "varname" or "xref"
> Start location: 157:99
>
> It seems that the validator is trying to process the contents of the
> code element when in fact the code element allows text inside it
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/code.html
>
> Or am I missing something obvious?
>
>
>
>
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