- From: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:49:34 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote:
> Anyone is free to implement formal language definitions, but I see no
> reason to make one more "official" than any other. Reference
> implementations are often a source of bugs and constrain the development
> of the specification in ways that are artificial and unrelated to the
> needs of the users and authors ("we can't require that, the grammar
> couldn't express it").
>
>> - you cannot validate documents against english prose.
>>
> Sure, you just have a conformance checker that implements the prose. For
> example:
>
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator/html5/
>
Just curious: How is it possible to write validation software that is
free of bugs whereas isn't not possible to create a reference
implementation without said bugs?
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