- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:56:56 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Terje Bless wrote: > Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > > Agreed. I think we should think about how to implement these error messages. > > Liam Quinn patched SP [1] to generate more helpful error messages for his > > validator; I'm currently translating these error messages into german. Terje > > said several times that he has to do something about these error messages to. > > Maybe this is the right time to discuss this issue. [...] > Switching to lq-nsgmls (Liam's version) should be about as quick if > anyone wants to look into that (Gerald, weren't you already considering > this?). My concerns with this approach is that SP has to be recompiled > every time you want to change a message and only one language can be > used at a time (AFAIK, Liam?) Yes, SP is limited to one language at a time, and you need to recompile whenever changing a message. It'd be simple (but somewhat ugly) to have separate binaries of (lq-)nsgmls for each language. It should also be possible to hack SP's message system to support multiple languages, but I'm not sure if this is worthwhile as the advantage--being able to quickly update the parser for all languages--seems to be outweighed by the disadvantage--making it harder to integrate future changes from the one-language SP. > plus it leaves us with a divergen version > of SP. FWIW, the changes for lq-nsgmls are at <http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/src/sp-1.3.4/>. There are only a few files that differ, and you can leave behind my URLStorage changes if you like (those changes add support for name-based virtual hosts when fetching DTDs). Regards, -- Liam Quinn
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