- From: Christoph Schneegans <Christoph@Schneegans.de>
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:28:09 GMT
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Terje Bless wrote: >> Web browsers today are able to find (almost all) well-formedness >> errors, the validator isn't! > > Please report these to Bugzilla (including test cases) if they aren't > documented allready. I think these reports are already there, e.g.: . <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12> . <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=68> . <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1453> > The Validator as it stands does have various limitations in its XML > support. (...) The validator openly acknowledges these limitations, Really? For example, where does it openly acknowledge that the well-formedness violation in <p class=""title=""></p> is not detected? (I've seen this kind of typo in XHTML documents more than once.) > While some of them may be fixable with the current parser, the plan > for addressing these shortcomings long term is to make use of a > specialized XML processor. A specialized XML parser is the only reasonable choice for XML documents. I think there's absolutely no sense in trying to make OpenSP an XML parser. > This requires some fairly big changes in the code - which is one > reason why it's taking so long - and is not without its own issues > (determining when to use the XML processor and when to use the SGML > parser, for one). When in doubt, let the user decide. <http://valet.webthing.com/page/> offers two parsers. -- <http://schneegans.de/> |
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