- From: Irene Vatton <irene.vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:32:51 +0200
- To: "John Russell" <ve3ll@rac.ca>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:14:49 -0400 (EDT)
"John Russell" <ve3ll@rac.ca> wrote:
> One of my common uses of amaya is to verify students
> documents quickly. amaya catches a few problems that
> the w3 and wdg parsers miss. I really like that. However
> I am now seeing a couple of badly formed documents
> (according to w3.org and wdg) that amaya does not raise
> alarms on .... one is invalid characters and another is on
> invalid nesting. the two test files are included.
> Are these things Amaya should flag?
> Are they now on the 2.do list? --
> john russell ve3ll@rac.ca [those are L's as in LLAMA]
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~trains
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~cipher
We did that at the beginning, but we abandonned the idea to do a too
strict control on loaded documents.
We let that role to validators.
Today, Amaya does a minimum of control on loaded documents:
+ it checks that they are well-formed (if it's a XHTML document)
+ it fixes a set of important errors (misplaced end tags, <td> outside a <table>
+ it detects the use of invalid or unknown tags.
But new created documents with Amaya are valid, and it only allows the user to
add new elements at a valid position.
I agree with you, we probably have to flag invalid characters.
Irene.
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