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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: www-validator@w3.org
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:27:46 +0200
Message-ID: <r04pltg2lkg4s98p9i05k6k2tag98h4f26@4ax.com>
Subject: Re: DTD 4.01 for ignoring & in CGI URL
* JohnTNYC wrote:
>It was just a temporary measure to make it easier for him to see if his
>pages validated for everything except encoded ampersands easily until a new
>version of his ecommerce platform fixes the bug in its URL generation
>routines. The ampersand encoding is beyond his control and I'm sure he
>wasn't going to claim his pages as compliant until the software was fixed.
>Right Nester?
I think Kynn and I already got that...
However, I'm currently thinking about re-writing the check script with
some more object orientation to
* seperate code and presentation
* allow more backends than just SP, e.g.
* a real XML Validator
* XML Schema Validator
* the CSS Validator
* HTML::Tidy
* ...
* l10n of the Validator
One idea was to create some mapping table for common error messages. To
have a single code rather than some abitrary text string would
especially ease the l10n and the incorporation of appropriate
"explanation..." links. If we had such a table, we could easily
introduce some pragmas to disable certain error messages.
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