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what is wrong with this line of HTML code?

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
April 6, 2021
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Why am I getting a "special character must be escaped error about this line?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

thank you!

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machepapAuthor

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Thanks for all the input. I don't really understand this code, it was generated by dreamweaver when I made this website many years ago. This bit originally was the 2nd line, but the first line also gave an error until I switched the two lines, so now it's:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

I'd like to have error-free code, any further advice is welcome!

BenPleysier

Community Expert

Instead of the lines that you have shown, use the following

<!doctype html>
<html>

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>

</html>

Adjust the `title` to suit.

This may cause other problems, but at least you are using contemporary code.

For more: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_basic.asp

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B i r n o u

Legend

are you sure that the text file is correctly encoded in 8859-1 ?... by the way do you need 8859-1... utf-8 could be a better choice if you don't have any needs for iso
in XML you really need to encode only 5 characters :

"   &quot;
'   &apos;
<   &lt;
>   &gt;
&   &amp;

try removing all white space just before opening the XML tag <?xml

and by the way if you use utf-8... don't use utf-8 bom, I really suspect that your files is UTF-8 BOM encode... and that your first line is copied and pasted from an old document or an example

BenPleysier

Community Expert

Hi @B i r n o u , I get the impression that the code is being used unside an HTML document. That is why the OP is getting the error.

If he had used it in an XML document, there would be no error.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<note>
  <to>Tove</to>
  <from>Jani</from>
  <heading>Reminder</heading>
  <body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>

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B i r n o u

Legend

yes Ben, you're probably right. I agree.

BenPleysier

Community Expert

If it is used inside an XML document, it should not throw any errors.

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