Richard Lionheart wrote:

> Ken and Bjoern,
> 
> Thanks for spotting the problem and posting your observations.
> 
> Ken:  I just downloaded HTML Tidy GUI ver. 101.5 based on Raggett's 4 Aug
> 2000 version.  I ran it on WinXP-Pro/SP2.  It reported no errors are
> warnings.

The condition of hex color specs having to start with a hash mark
is not enforceable in XML with a DTD. The data type of the bgcolor
attribute is CDATA, which effectively means "any text", so a value 
of bgcolor="foobar" is valid XHTML, as is bgcolor="green". The #
mark is merely a convention to herald a hex value and can only be
enforced after validation by an application (or possibly a Schema).

I guess you could write an RE that would check it, although a quick
grep of /usr/share/dict/words shows the following dictionary entries
are also valid colors :-)

accede afaced bacaba baccae baffed beaded bedaff bedded bedead bedeaf 
beebee beefed cabbed cadded dabbed daffed decade decede deeded deface 
defade efface facade feeded

Quite pretty, in fact (http://xml.silmaril.ie/colours.html :-)

///Peter
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