[Bug 15936] HTML+RDFa promotes DTD-based validation

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15936

--- Comment #6 from Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> 2012-03-20 05:06:14 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > In fact,
> > I would be happy to see an HTML4+RDFa validator in validator.nu if that is
> > what you would prefer... at that point we could drop the HTML4+RDFa 1.1 DTDs.
> > However, what is not acceptable is dropping HTML4+RDFa 1.1 entirely. Thoughts?
> > [...]
> > Henri, since you're the expert here - would we be able to add this validation
> > mechanism to the validator.nu validator at W3C? (I'm not asking you to do 
> > the work as I think that Mike Smith has already done the majority of this 
> > work for HTML5+RDFa).
> 
> Probably you would.

Actually I'm not interested in adding HTML4+RDFa support to the validator, any
more than HTML4+SVG or HTML4 plus the <video> and <audio> elements, or
backporting whatever other features to HTML4 validation. The HTML4 validation
feature is there for existing legacy documents. Those existing legacy documents
do not use RDFa attributes. We should be encouraging authors who are creating
new documents or updating existing ones to use HTML5 instead, for many reasons,
not encouraging them to label the new/updated documents with a legacy HTML4
document and expect that they can validate them as HTML4.

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Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:06:21 UTC