- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:16:57 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen, Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:36:58 +0300: > On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 17:28 +0200, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> Henri: Shouldn't checkers validate @cite too? > > Checkers *must* validate that @cite contains a valid URL potentially > surrounded by spaces. > > However, I don't think using @cite as an example here does any good. > @cite is a remarkably useless feature in HTML. With my validator > developer hat on, I have about zero interest in developing > @cite-oriented checking features. The important question was: should @cite point to a fragment - or not. If it should, then it would - I suppose - be simple to check that the @cite points to a fragment. Whether that fragment is correct, is another thing - I understand that that requires "heavier" validation. -- leif halvard silli
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