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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page xii

Did read:

Chapter 7, Character Entities
Lists the names accepted by HTML and CSS attributes for color
values.

Chapter 8, Color names and values
Lists the special characters recognized by HTML.

now reads:

Chapter 7, Character Entities
Lists the special characters recognized by HTML.

Chapter 8, Color names and values
Lists the names accepted by HTML and CSS attributes for color
values.

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 4,257
Added Scott Guelich to the authors of CGI Programming with Perl.

Fixed Gunther Birznieks' name on p.4.

 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 10

Did read:

Chapter 7, Character Entities, contains listings of valid
color values (for tags with attributes for specifying color).

Chapter 8, Color Names and Values, lists common character
entities recognized in HTML documents.

now reads:

Chapter 7, Character Entities, lists common character entities
recognized in HTML documents.

Chapter 8, Color Names and Values, contains listings of valid
color values (for tags with attributes for specifying color).

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 26
In <colgroup> charoff=value description,

"withing"
now reads:
"within"

 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 108
Code at top

added slash to the closing style tag:
changed <style> to </style>.

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 126
In the first code example, there was a duplicated "the the"

in the text of the code example. It now reads "to the"

 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 126
In the first paragraph under "Unlearning Bad Habits" head,

changed "disuade" to "dissuade"

 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 127
In the section "An Overview of an XML Document," under "The

XML document" changed "meaninful" to "meaningful"

 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 128
In Example 10-1, the price has been corrected to match the

book cover price: $19.99 -> $24.95


 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 128
In the penultimate paragraph starting with "Finally," changed

<OReilly:Book> to <OReilly:Books>

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 129
In the paragraph beginning "In Example 10-1" changed

"differenciates" to "differentiates"

 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 132
In the last code, last line on page before footnote,

changed $19.99 to $24.95

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 133
Figure 10-1: changed $19.99 to $24.95

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 133
At the last bullet, "cooresponding" now reads "corresponding"

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 134
Under SYSTEM keyword, "root_element" now reads "root-element"

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 142
In the first paragraph under General entities heading,

"cansubstitute" now reads "can substitute"

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 142
In the code example under penultimate bullet, the two lines


<ENTITY ...
<ENTITY ...

Now read:

<!ENTITY ...
<!ENTITY ...

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 143
In the last paragraph under Parameter entities starting "Note

that parameter entity references ..." replaced first sentence with:

As with general entity references, you cannot make
circular references in declarations.

The second sentence of paragraph ("In addition, ...") is unchanged.

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 144
In the last paragraph before "Default value," changed

"The is" to "This is"

 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 146
In the paragraph starting "The NMTOKEN and NMTOKENS"


cann 133 ot

Now reads

cannot

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 265
In paragraph 4, "Size" now reads "Side"

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 267
exec. argument cgi:

explanation now reads "The URI of a CGI program."

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 267
The example at the end of this entry looked like an example

for the CGI argument but is an example for both arguments.
Changed formatting of "For example" to match "Arguments"

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 268
Under "set", the argument has been changed to "var" not

"name" (1st lines below "Arguments" and "For example:")

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 269
The variables as DOCUMENT_NAME etc. were only printed in

the code examples but not as list terms. These headings
have been added:

DOCUMENT_NAME
DOCUMENT_URI
DATE_LOCAL
DATE_GMT
LAST_MODIFIED

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 271
In the next to last line of code, removed the slashes.

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 272
The comment now reads: "Use $key as index for %parameters hash, ..."

^

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 314
Last two code examples on page

echo "Hello$a0;
now reads:
echo "Hello $a
";

And:
echo 'Hello$a0;
now reads:
echo 'Hello $a
';

And:
"In this case, the output is exactly Hellot$an"
now reads:
"In this case, the output is exactly Hello $a
"

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 315
Table 16-1 at top

The first 4 escape sequences have been changed:

en is now

\t is now
er is now
is now \

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 316
code at top, line 2

...<br>0;
is now:
...<br>/n;

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 318
top of table 16-2

Inserted a thin space between the two -- characters
in the first row of operators.

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 322
First full paragraph

"When you call a function, the arguments pass to the function ..."
is now
"passed" instead of "pass".

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 322
Code at bottom

function hitcount()
is now:
function hitcount() {

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 323
second-to-last paragraph

$HTTP_GET_DATA, $HTTP_POST_DATA, and $HTTP_COOKIE_DATA
is now:
$HTTP_GET_VARS, $HTTP_POST_VARS, and $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 324
Line 4 from bottom

<SELECT MULTIPLE NAME=interests[]>
is now:
<SELECT MULTIPLE NAME="interests[]">

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 325
Lines 5,17,22

...0;
is now:
...
"

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 327
Lines 2, 17, 26, 28


...0;
is now:
...
;

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 349
In the five-liner php directory functions example,

echo "$entry<br>0;
is now:
echo "$entry<br>
";

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 398
heading "Content-Transfer-E..."

now reads "Content-Transfer-Encoding"

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 419
heading "CoreDumpDir..."

now reads "CoreDumpDirectory"

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 424
heading "KeepAliveT..."

now reads "KeepAliveTimeOut"

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 427
heading "MaxKeepAlive..."

now reads "MaxKeepAliveRequests"

and heading "MaxRequests..."
now reads "MaxRequestsPerChild"

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 444
In the Chapter 19 Anonymous_Au... entry, the second

line was wrong:

Anonymous_Au...Anonymous_Authoritative on|off

the first part repeated the previous line. It now reads:

first line: Anonymous_Au...

second line: Anonymous_Authoritative on|off

This problem has been changed on several following pages:

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 444
Anonymous_Log...

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 445
Anonymous_Must...

Anonymous_No...
Anonymous_Ver...
AuthDBAuthor...

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 449
AddIconByEnco...

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 465
CacheNegotiat...

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 466
CacheForce...

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 467
CacheLastMod...

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 470
ProxyReceive...

Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999
Printed
Page 474

(474) BrowserMatchNo...u

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1999