Re: TR references checker

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:37:30 +0200
• To: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
• Cc: spec-prod@w3.org
• Message-ID: <410efc75.89291384@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Dominique Hazaël-Massieux wrote:
>I've put on-line a 1st release of a tool allowing to check that links to
>dated TR documents are still up to date:
>http://www.w3.org/2004/07/references-checker-ui

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc-index.xml might be useful to extend it to
check for RFCs. I am not sure whether there is similar machine-readable
data for Internet Drafts... 

>"""
>The following references were found in this document, and point to an
>outdate version of a W3C Technical Report:
>    * Potential outdated ref: Character
>      Model for the World Wide Web
>    * Potential outdated ref: HTML 4.0
>      Specification
>    * Potential outdated ref: Extensible Markup
>      Language (XML) 1.0
>"""

It might be better UI-wise to state "newer version available" rather
than "potential outdated ref".

Thanks!

Received on Sunday, 25 July 2004 14:38:21 UTC