- From: Olivier Thereaux via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:46:03 +0000
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<h3 id="about">About this service</h3>
<p>
- <a href="./">The
- <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
- Markup Validation Service</a> (or <em>HTML Validator</em>, as it used to
- be called) is a free (Open Source) tool that checks Web documents for
- <a href="docs/help.html#validation_basics"
- title="Introducing and defining the concept of Markup Validation">validity</a>.
+ The <a href="./">Markup Validator</a> is a free service by
+ <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
+ that helps check the validity of Web documents.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Most Web documents are written using <em>markup languages</em>, such as
+ <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> or
+ <acronym title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym>.
+ These languages are defined by <em>technical specifications</em>, which
+ usually include a machine-readable <em>formal grammar</em> (and vocabulary). The act of checking
+ a document against these constraints is called <a href="docs/help.html#validation_basics"
+ title="Introducing and defining the concept of Markup Validation">validation</a>, and this
+ is what the Markup Validator does.
</p>
+
<p>
Validating Web documents is an important step which can dramatically help improving
and ensuring their quality, and it can save a lot of time and money (read more on
<a href="docs/why.html" title="Why validate? A document answering questions on the importance of validation." >why validating matters</a>).
- Validation is not, however,
- <a href="docs/help.html#validandconform"
- title="Read more about the difference between validation and conformance checking, from our FAQ.">strictly equivalent to <em>conformance checking</em></a>.
+ Validation is, however, neither a full <a href="docs/help.html#validandquality">quality
+ check</a>, nor is it strictly equivalent to <a href="docs/help.html#validandconform"
+ title="Read more about the difference between validation and conformance checking"><em>checking for conformance</em></a> to the specification.
</p>
<p>
- Supported document types include the HTML (through HTML 4.01) and XHTML (1.0 and 1.1) family,
- MathML, SMIL and SVG (1.0 and 1.1, including the mobile profiles). The Markup Validator can
- also validate Web documents written with an SGML or XML DTD, provided they use a proper
+ This validator can process documents written in most markup languages.
+ Supported document types include the <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>
+ (through <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> 4.01) and
+ <acronym title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> (1.0 and 1.1) family,
+ MathML, SMIL and <acronym title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</acronym>
+ (1.0 and 1.1, including the mobile profiles). The Markup Validator can
+ also validate Web documents written with an <a href="docs/sgml.html"
+ title="introduction to the concepts of SGML and DTDs"><acronym title="Standard Generalized
+ Markup Language">SGML</acronym> or <acronym title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>
+ <acronym title="Document Type Definition">DTD</acronym></a>, provided they use a proper
document type declaration.
</p>
<p>
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