what is a parse error and how do I fix it

You have some sort of invisible character that the validator is choking on somewhere (ie. it looks and acts like a space, but it isn’t the space). If I view your CSS file directly and copy/paste the contents into the CSS validator’s direct input validation, it validates

How to test valid UUID/GUID?

Currently, UUID’s are as specified in RFC4122. An often neglected edge case is the NIL UUID, noted here. The following regex takes this into account and will return a match for a NIL UUID. See below for a UUID which only accepts non-NIL UUIDs. Both of these solutions are for versions 1 to 5 (see the … Read more

Validating input using java.util.Scanner

Overview of Scanner.hasNextXXX methods java.util.Scanner has many hasNextXXX methods that can be used to validate input. Here’s a brief overview of all of them: hasNext() – does it have any token at all? hasNextLine() – does it have another line of input? For Java primitives hasNextInt() – does it have a token that can be parsed into an int? Also available are hasNextDouble(), hasNextFloat(), hasNextByte(), hasNextShort(), hasNextLong(), and hasNextBoolean() As bonus, there’s … Read more

“Stray start tag footer” in html validator?

You need to move the </body> end tag at the very end, because a footer element must not appear after the body element but inside it. This follows from the syntax of the root element, the html element: it contains a head element and a body element, nothing more. The validator says “Stray start tag footer” because the start tag appears in a context where no elements … Read more