- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:27:00 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-validator-css@w3.org
- cc: A.Panesar-04@student.lboro.ac.uk
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Dorward wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:32:49PM +0000, A.Panesar-04@student.lboro.ac.uk wrote: > >> I am having problems validating my XHTML document to CSS. I get the >> following error: Please, validate your XML document first! > >> The document is a XHTML document and is valid to XHTML already. > > The Markup Validator is designed to deal with SGML, it has some > limitations when it comes to XML I think the practical problem is that the W3C's CSS checker (misleadingly called "CSS validator") performs, as a side job, some XML markup validation that works, in some details, better than W3C's markup validator. It's certainly somewhat surprising to see a W3C service first report a document as valid, then another W3C service you to validate your document first. What is an author supposed to do? -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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