Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55
> 13 Converting to HTML/XHTML > 13.16 Passing W3C validation tests > 13.16.2 Replacing high ASCII characters for W3C validation
W3C validation tests complain if a file includes any characters with ASCII decimal values 128 through 159. Presence of these characters does not preclude validation. However, if the file contains real validation errors, the W3C validator reports these characters along with the actual errors. If you fix the errors, and leave the characters, the complaint becomes just a note about “non-SGML” characters.
Note: Leaving these characters in your document does not make the output invalid, despite the somewhat misleading way the W3C validator lists them when something else in the output is not valid.
For most purposes you should not need to do anything about the characters in question. However, if you want to have Mif2Go remap or remove the offending characters, you can set the following option:
; ValidOnly = No (default, allow normal use of chars from 128 to 160),
; or Yes (for warning-free W3C validation, remaps or removes
This option affects the following characters:
Setting ValidOnly=Yes
changes the output as follows:
<ul>
tags) become mid-dots
Table 13ValidOnly=Yes
.
Depending on which version of the Mif2Go User’s
Guide you are using to view the table, some characters
might not be displayed.
Table 13
§13.4.3 Specifying character encoding for HTML
§14.3.3 Specifying character encoding for generic XML
§21.5 Assigning properties to text formats