- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:46:03 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Sjoerd Visscher wrote: > > > > I don't see why you can't validate an orphan fragment. Clearly the > > spec needs to be clarified a bit, but it doesn't seem impossible. I should have said, I don't see why you can't "check an orphan fragment for conformance", my bad. > You could with a handwritten html 5 validator, but not with a generic > validation tool, because elements with the same name can have different > types in different locations in the document. Yes well as I keep saying, I don't expect generic validation tools to be able to be fully conformant HTML5 conformance checkers... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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