- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:38:50 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: WAI Markup Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Two further points may be noted: 1. Bearing in mind http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-xml-schema-req I would suggest that the requirement for DTD compliance, whether introduced as a checkpoint or only in the techniques document, be reformulated in terms of formal grammars or structural schemata: authors must ensure that document markup conforms to the formal grammar, structural schema or document type definition provided in the W3C specification. 2. As a further critical remark pertaining to the "whenever possible" exemption, it is in principle always "possible" (in the strict sense of possibility which is common in ordinary discourse and relied upon in the definition of priority 1 checkpoints) to meet a requirement, and to say that a technique must be applied whenever possible is therefore nonsensical in this context, provided that one has a proper appreciation of what "possibility" means. One does not need to enter into a discussion of "possible world" semantics to establish this point. Accordingly, as suggested in my earlier message, it is necessary to substitute a more explicit and helpful alternative to "whenever possible" and to avoid giving the impression that the author is at liberty to take an indeterminate range of considerations into account when exercising discretion as to whether or not to apply a checkpoint.
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