Next message: Nick Kew: "Re: Table Validation"
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:34:30 +0100
From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <20010227123456-r01010600-04f46556@10.0.0.2>
Subject: Re: Table Validation
On 27.02.01 at 11:10, Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Terje Bless wrote:
>
>>Slippery slope!
Nice summation. :-)
>IMO the slippery slope only starts when a document that would *fail*
>validation to any appropriate W3C standard *passes* validation to
>a custom DTD.
>
>Merely requiring some closing tags that W3C makes optional doesn't cause
>you to cross that threshold. So I stand by my comment: the original
>questioner can accomplish what he asked for without losing formal
>validation.
Yes. As a document author I see no problem with doing this. In fact I
commonly encourage custom DTDs and tools that support them. _But_ this is a
technique for document authors and not for Validators. Once the Validators
make judgement calls about what DTD you /really/ meant, it's no longer a
validator but rather a mere "lint". Bertilo's suggestion to move to XHTML
is a better idea in this particular case.