Re: Microformats?

Thanks for the ref; I wasn't aware of the Log Validator.

I take it that the online validator isn't modular in this fashion?



On 11/07/2005, at 12:00 PM, Karl Dubost wrote:

>
> Le 05-07-10 à 21:49, Mark Nottingham a écrit :
>
>> I had a conversation with Tantek Celik the other day, and he  
>> corrected my misconceptions WRT microformats (at least as he  
>> preaches them ;). AFAICT, they only use class and id attributes,  
>> along with HTML profiles, to add semantics to documents, and thus  
>> don't break validity.
>>
>
> yes it's what I thought.
>
>
>
>> What the validator *could* do, however, is support validation of  
>> HTML profiles; e.g., by validating profiles described in XMDP;
>>   http://gmpg.org/xmdp/
>>
>
> That would mean going down the road of Conformance checker for the  
> validator and it's not an easy task at all. Right now the validator  
> checks only the validity of the documents and not the conformance.  
> My usual favorite example about that is style information.
>
> ******************
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
>      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
> <HTML>
>    <HEAD>
>       <TITLE>A simple HTML document</TITLE>
>    </HEAD>
>    <BODY>
> <p style="font-size: 12pt; color: fuchsia">Aren't style sheets  
> wonderful?</p>
>    </BODY>
> </HTML>
> *******************
>
> This document is
>     _ valid
>     - not conformant to HTML 4.01
>
> Because we don't know what style sheets language is used for the  
> document.
>
> Cf: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/styles.html#h-14.2.1
> "14.2.1 Setting the default style sheet language"
>
> MUST: « Authors must specify the style sheet language of style  
> information associated with an HTML document. »
> + « Documents that include elements that set the style attribute  
> but which don't define a default style sheet language are incorrect. »
>
> How to make it conformant?
>
> * META (SHOULD)
>     <META http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
> * HTTP Headers
>     Content-Style-Type: text/css
>
>
> Maybe a better place to check this kind of things would be the  
> LogValidator developed by Olivier Théreaux.
>
>     http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/LogValidator/Overview.html.en
>
> Two articles explaining how to use the Log Validator
>     http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/09/Step-by-step
>     http://www.w3.org/QA/2003/03/web-kit
>
> A Manual
>     http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/LogValidator/Manual.html.en
>
> How to create New Modules
>     http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/LogValidator/Manual-Modules
>
> This last part means you can plug as many modules as you want to  
> the LogValidator specifically designed for certain tasks.
>
> Many modules could be developed for the benefit of the community.
>
>     - SpellChecker
>     - microformats
>     - metadata (meta name, link checker)
>     - etc.
>
> -- 
> Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
> W3C Conformance Manager
> *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
>
>
>
>


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