- From: Uriel Wittenberg <uw@urielw.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:08:57 -0400
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- CC: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
Terje Bless wrote: > >The definition of what's approvable is not made clear by the site. (I > >haven't made a research project out of this.) But I believe you're not > >correct -- I think it's more than adherence to the DTD, since e.g. > >!DOCTYPE is required. (Correct me if I'm mistaken.) > > I'm not sure I understand this paragraph fully. > > The DOCTYPE needs to be present because that is what specifies which DTD > should be used to interpret this document. The DOCTYPE can reference any > DTD; including several that have not been specified by the W3C. The DOCTYPE > can even reference your own DTD using a URL and the SGML parser that the > Validator uses can fetch it from your site and validate the pages against > that DTD. Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the various HTML 4 DTD's requires a !DOCTYPE in the document. Ergo, the validator can flunk documents that are consistent with an HTML 4 DTD. Ergo, the validator requires more than merely adherence to an HTML 4 DTD. How much more? It checks for !DOCTYPE; does it enforce anything else as well? I don't believe the site documents exactly what the validator is checking for. -- http://www.urielw.com/
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