- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:52:32 -0700
- To: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Cc: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 11:06 AM 9/29/2000 , Dave J Woolley wrote: >Other problems you will get at AA are compliance with published >DTDs, as most commercial sites do not comply## and even those >that want to may find it too difficult to eliminate proprietory >elements and attributes. Actually this requirement is VERY problematic. There is no definition of a "published DTD" and logically speaking, anyone could construct a "published DTD" by modifying the XHTML DTD (or using XHTML 1.1 modules) or HTML DTD to add their own custom tags and then reference this as a custom DTD. >$$ I'm assuming that the set of DTDs that is used by >validator.w3.org represents the published HTML DTDs. Except the validator (a) has never been granted an official exalted position such as this, and (b) will accept custom DTDs, _as it should_. Note: Custom DTDs are a feature, not a bug. The "published DTD" rule is very non-XMLish and will not work for the future! -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ Accessibility Roundtable Web Broadcast http://kynn.com/+on24 What's on my bookshelf? http://kynn.com/books/
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