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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
Cc: "'www-validator@w3.org'" <www-validator@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 02:42:11 +0200
Message-ID: <49ojmt4od5avd04919skb8mvdsrke3k8hp@4ax.com>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Check elment first, attribute second
* Christian Smith wrote:
>Consider
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
><html>
><head>
> <title>A test page</title>
></head>
><body>
><o dir="ltr">
>Opps, I goofed.
></p>
></body>
></html>
>
>Now, the validator will complain that there is no attribute "dir" in the
>element "o" in this version of HTML. Well, duh, there is no element "o" in
>this version of HTML ;-)
Consider this additional definition in some custom DTD:
<!ATTLIST o
dir (ltr|rtl) #IMPLIED
>
Now the Validator would only complain about the the missing element
definition, if you also add
<!ELEMENT o - - (#PCDATA)>
The validator wouldn't complain anymore. That's SGML Validation.
>It's not useful to report this and in some cases will make finding true
>errors harder.
Both actually _are_ real errors and since we claim to use an SGML
Validation system, we must report such errors.
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