- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:22 +0900
- To: Nikita The Spider The Spider <nikitathespider@gmail.com>
- Cc: "www-validator Community" <www-validator@w3.org>
Hello, On Jul 27, 2007, at 05:45 , Nikita The Spider The Spider wrote: > Congrats on the new version of the validator. IMO the new look is a > big improvement on the old one. Thanks! > I have a question about the check > script, and I hope it isn't out of place here. No, of course not. > I'm trying to understand the conditions under which the validator will > generate certain warnings. The function set_parse_mode() in check can > trigger warnings W06 and W08 which are similar. I can trigger W06 by > validating a document that meets these conditions: > - Mime type = text/html > - Doctype either absent or FPI not in the validator's catalog > - No XML declaration. > > Looking at the check script, I *thought* this would trigger W08 via > the test on line 1979. Indeed, it looks like a bug in that test. However, the fact is that W06 now "includes" W08 in a way, and has a better explanation. Taking a bit of distance from the code, I can't really find a reason to keep W08 any longer, do you? http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/share/templates/en_US/warnings.tmpl -- olivier
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