Title: W3.org validator Error
Last modified: September 19, 2018

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# W3.org validator Error

 *  [ulissse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulissse/)
 * (@ulissse)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-org-validator-error/)
 * Hi,
 * Just to know if it is really nessecary to use files names with double hyphens
   within your plugin because this is causing a warning in HTML validator (see below).
 * Warning: The document is not mappable to XML 1.0 due to two consecutive hyphens
   in a comment.
 * At line 396, column 77
 * mplates/gdrts–stars-rating–l
 * Thank you.

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