Every class's documentation has the section "Methods inherited from class
java.lang.Object". This section starts with ", " -- why? Because the first
entry is "<clinit>". It is a good thing the tag is currently invalid.

In general, care must be taken by javadoc to ensure the text being generated
conforms to the character encoding defined in the HTML specification. The
bug described here is likely a minor symptom of a pervasive problem.

One may be tempted to tackle to problem of abolishing incorrect HTML from the
output of javadoc. However, I highly recommend limiting the scope of the
provoked bug fix to producing correct HTML from non-HTML string data.


Name: dbT83986 Date: 04/08/99


If you run javadoc with the "-private" option on a class that
contains a static initializer, it tries to generate documentation
for the compiler-generated method called "<clinit>". The HTML
looks like this:

<a name="<clinit>()"><img src="images/green-ball.gif" width=12 height=12 alt=" o "></a>
<a name="<clinit>"><b><clinit></b></a>

and browsers get mad at the unescaped greater-than signs.
At least NS and IE do.
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