- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:22:24 -0800
- To: ed.rice@hp.com, www-html@w3.org
(Thread moved to www-html@w3.org at danc's request.)
Ed Rice <ed.rice@hp.com> wrote, on w3c-html-cg@w3.org:
>
> Doesn't including the non-well-formed/invalid documents in the
> architecture/design actually validate the design and say that there is
> no such thing as a non-well-formed document?
No; you can simultaneously say that something is invalid and say exactly
how it should be processed. CSS does this; for instance:
p { color: "red"; color: green; }
...is completely invalid CSS (you can't pass a string to the property
'color'), but every conforming UA will handle it the same.
In the case of HTML5, the HTML5 parser spec:
http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parser
...defines what is an error (non-conforming syntax) and what isn't.
HTH,
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Ian Hickson
Received on Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:22:39 UTC