- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:37:15 +0200
- To: "Kornel Lesinski" <kornel@osiolki.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Saturday, August 27, 2005, 2:17:56 AM, Kornel wrote: KL> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:33:04 +0100, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote: >> IH> and it's a perfectly fine extract of a valid HTML >> IH> document. >> >> How do we know that? Its *potentially* an extract of a valid HTML 4.01 >> document. Its "feasibly valid". But if, for example, it was a child of >> head, or title, or img, or P, then it would not be valid. KL> If this example is changed to: KL> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> KL> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" KL> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> KL> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> KL> <head> KL> <title>Example of a p in a div</title> KL> </head> KL> <body> KL> <div>Some text KL> <p>More text</p> KL> </div> KL> </body> KL> </html> KL> We won't know that it is valid XHTML/1.1! It will be "feasibly valid", KL> because there might be some imaginary text before XML declaration now you understand why I asked for copies in external files. However, note that I didn't ask for snippets to be made complete documents - they could equally be well formed snippets. However, repliess indicated that the editors would rather conform to HTML 4.01 which is fine by me (but does require a DOCTYPE, as HTML 4 claims to be SGML). KL> or it KL> might have been sent using imaginary HTTP protocol specyfying invalid KL> encoding that makes example not well-formed. KL> I postulate that all CSS examples are presented with complete set of KL> HTTP/1.1 headers using transfer-encoding:chunked to ensure that presented KL> code is well-formed, valid and advocates careful coding practices. ;) KL> Seriously though, even HTML4.01 spec is full of junk examples, according KL> to your criteria. Yes .... which is no excuse for a more modern specification. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead
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