- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:31:24 -0500
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: page that purports to be HTML. > > What you are asking is infeasible. As an example, the byte stream might > include markup like <img src="example" />. In order to become "valid", > an alt="..." attribute with alternate text for the image is required. alt="" or alt="undescribed image" would be sufficient > delivers. Contrary to your request, some don't even desire this process > to be fully deterministic. Then we're back in the browser-bug morass that XML was designed to save us from. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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