Re: use IDNs in the Validator's URL field

David Dorward wrote:
 
>> However that feature should not be introduced before the W3C validator
>> can check URI syntax in attributes like "href".
 
> It can, and does, not that there is much to check, since URI syntax is
> defined as CDATA by the specification.

I wasn't talking about the DTD syntax, but the prose in the spec.s, e.g.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.4
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars

There was a short thread about "conformance testing" and "validation"
some days ago, IIRC it was here.  

Frank