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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By 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 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 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 2000
Printed Page 26
In <colgroup> charoff=value description,

"withing"
now reads:
"within"

Anonymous  May 2000
Printed Page 108
Code at top

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

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

changed "disuade" to "dissuade"

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

XML document" changed "meaninful" to "meaningful"

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

<OReilly:Book> to <OReilly:Books>

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

"differenciates" to "differentiates"

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

changed $19.99 to $24.95

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

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

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

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

"cansubstitute" now reads "can substitute"

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


<ENTITY ...
<ENTITY ...

Now read:

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

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

"The is" to "This is"

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


cann 133 ot

Now reads

cannot

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

Anonymous  Jan 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 1999
Printed Page 267
exec. argument cgi:

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

Anonymous  Jan 2000
Printed Page 268
Under "set", the argument has been changed to "var" not

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

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

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

^

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

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

Anonymous  Jan 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 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 2000
Printed Page 322
Code at bottom

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

Anonymous  Jan 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 2000
Printed Page 324
Line 4 from bottom

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

now reads "Content-Transfer-Encoding"

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

now reads "CoreDumpDirectory"

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

now reads "KeepAliveTimeOut"

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

now reads "MaxKeepAliveRequests"

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

Anonymous  Jan 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 1999
Printed Page 444
Anonymous_Log...

Anonymous  Sep 1999
Printed Page 445
Anonymous_Must...

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

Anonymous  Sep 1999
Printed Page 449
AddIconByEnco...

Anonymous  Sep 1999
Printed Page 465
CacheNegotiat...

Anonymous  Sep 1999
Printed Page 466
CacheForce...

Anonymous  Sep 1999
Printed Page 467
CacheLastMod...

Anonymous  Sep 1999
Printed Page 470
ProxyReceive...

Anonymous  Sep 1999
Printed Page 474

(474) BrowserMatchNo...u

Anonymous  Sep 1999