Using local Validator

Using local installation of validator.

Currently the setup I have is connected to the internet
But the reason behind this configuration is to provide an installation
On a site at a small rural business. The owner of which has agreed to have 2
university student placements in order to develop a web presence for his
business. Because of its location, the business does not have broadband
access. Hence the system will not have 'external' access other than
occasional dial-up - hence the local validator.

I have briefly tested with the 'plug out' with no problems experienced
Other than some of the external links obviously not working - this is not an
issue.

How does the local validator cope with the external references in such
constructs as:-
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Are these statements just checked for their presence or does the local
validator try to access them?

Allan Smith

Received on Wednesday, 31 October 2007 10:08:14 UTC