- From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Date: 21 Apr 2003 18:23:48 +0300
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 17:35, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > That's correct, since the error is not a reportable markup error. It does > not violate the formal syntax specified by the DTD. Similarly, > width="whatever I put here" is valid, in the technical sense of > validation, but surely not correct. Since the width attribute can take > percentage values too (e.g., width="100%"), it wouldn't even be possible > to write a DTD that allows what the HTML specification allows and > disallows everything else. That is, the permitted format of values cannot > be described in SGML (or in XML). To clarify, the above is true for DTD's, but XML Schemas (see eg. [1]) would allow these kind of restrictions. OTOH, even the M12n of XHTML in XML Schema working draft [2] doesn't contain them for the width attribute (type Length or MultiLength). [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#rf-pattern> [2] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-m12n-schema/schema_module_defs.html#a_smodule_XHTML_Datatypes> -- \/ille Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
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