Re: validator feedback

From: Terje Bless (link@tss.no)
Date: Mon, Jun 25 2001

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    Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:06:28 +0200
    From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
    To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
    cc: www-validator@w3.org
    Message-ID: <20010625195704-b01010705-a302a150-0910-010c@192.168.1.6>
    Subject: Re: validator feedback
    
    On 25.06.01 at 14:41, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org> wrote:
    
    >At 02:09 +0200 2001-06-23, Terje Bless wrote:
    >>On 22.06.01 at 09:43, Stephanie Booth <steph@climbtothestars.org> wrote:
    >>
    >>>The link to "explanation" on validation errors is a great idea. It would
    >>>also be very useful if the "explanation" page provided links to the
    >>>recommendation for immediate problem look-up.
    >>
    >>Thanks for the suggestion! I'm not sure we can implement this completely,
    >>but we can certainly improve it with fairly simple measures. A complete
    >>implementation would have to track relevant clauses for each error from
    >>each and every standard that we can validate against, but providing links
    >>to the most common standards from the error explanations would be doable.
    >
    >I did it for the CSS validator. It's not implemented yet, but 
    >Philippe has a file with each error and a link to the right place in 
    >the spec.
    >
    >It will be possible to do it for HTML validator if we can control the
    >output.
    
    For every version and variant from HTML 2.0, through XHTML, to MathML?