W3C specs requiring valid code from Christophe Strobbe on 2005-11-09 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from October to December 2005)

Evangelistas,

Christophe Strobbe has created a survey of W3C specifications which  
require validation in their conformance section.

Just as a small reminder, that
     Validity and Conformance are too different concepts.

Conformance defined in a specification is a way to address the  
technical organization of the specification and the requirements to  
implement it. Conformance sections in W3C Specifications, in general,  
are getting better. I would say that many people have difficulty to  
understand them.
Often people think that conformance is certification. It is not.

To make a short abstract,

     * Well formed (XML),
     * Validity,
     * Conformance,

are different concepts.

Read the full mail, there are references to each specifications :)  
It's interesting.

[[[
I tried to create an (incomplete) overview of W3C specifications to  
see which ones already require valid code. Some W3C specifications  
are about interaction between machines rather than with users, so not  
all specifications are relevant to our discussion about validity. The  
large majority of specifications listed below already require valid  
code. Curiously, I could not find an explicit statement in the HTML  
4.01 specification that requires valid code (please correct me if I  
overlooked something), and this is the only exception in the HTML/ 
XHTML family. I would conclude from this that developers (not just  
web developers but also developers of authoring tools) who generate  
invalid code are doing a bad job because they ignore an important  
requirement of the technologies they are using. The overview below  
contains three sections 1. W3C specs requiring valid code 2. W3C  
specifications that require other types of conformance 3. W3C  
specifications that don't explicitly require valid code
]]]

-- W3C specs requiring valid code from Christophe Strobbe on  
2005-11-09 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from October to December 2005)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005OctDec/0442.html
Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:06:46 GMT


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W3C Conformance Manager
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