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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 48
<option>

Wrong cross-reference: "See Chapter?4 [&#8230;] on using forms."
This should refer to Chapter?6 instead.

 Bernhard Bodenstorfer  Apr 26, 2010 
Printed Page 106
font-variant description

"smallcaps" is listed as an acceptable value for font-variant, but the correct spelling is "small-caps".

Eric Knibbe  Mar 06, 2009 
Printed Page 115
all example in Namespaces

To define name space with URI need quotation.

book example
<OReilly:Books xmlns:OReilly=http://www.oreilly.com>

should be
<OReilly:Books xmlns:OReilly="http://www.oreilly.com">

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 116
first example

example 1 <header xmlns:....... causes syntax error

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 276
fsize directive

(this really comes under the 'minor omission' category)

you can configure the size format (config sizefmt) with "bytes" to get exact bytes:

config sizefmt="bytes"
(gives long value: 3,704)
config sizefmt="abbrev"
(gives default value: 4k)

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 276
set directive

(this isn\'t a technical mistake - instead it should come under the 'minor omission'
category)

A backslash will escape characters in a variable's value string e.g.
set var='oreilly' value='Tim\'s place'

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 278
Conditional Statements

(minor omission)
It would be good to point out that you can use regular expressions with egrep syntax
in conditional statements.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 367
Descriptions of gzdeflate and gzinflate

Specifying "gzip-deflated" rather than "gzip-compressed" would more accurately reflect the algorithm used.

 Bernhard Bodenstorfer  Aug 04, 2009 
Printed Page 378
java_last_exception_clear

In the description, replace "extension" by "exception".

 Bernhard Bodenstorfer  Aug 04, 2009