Re: Non-responsibility of W3C translators in validation errors

Hello Gabriele,
I agree with you! As translators we're not responsible for such errors.
Your suggestion seems right to me: it should be desirable if not mandatory
that W3C documents are valid.
Instead of defining "validation certificates" maybe we can start saying to
who wants to translate, to check the validity of the document.

Simone

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Gabriele Romanato <
gabriele.romanato@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> while I was surfing the W3C TR documents, I noticed that sometimes
> occur some validation errors in some technical specifications and in some
> working drafts. As translators, we take the documents as they are
> and I think that we are not responsible for those errors.
> I propose to add a validation certificate to *all* documents that are
> eligible to be translated, and, loosely,
> to all W3C documents. The URI should check automatically that the document
> is valid acccording its own
> DTD, without a generic reference to the validator page but with
> http://validator.w3.org/check/referer
>
> thanks for your attention
> Gabriele Romanato
>
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