- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:25:14 -0700
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Individual authors often write complete HTML documents, but organizations tend to write fragments of HTML documents, which eventually get concatenated into complete documents. It is currently cumbersome to validate document fragments; it involves making up a minimal template representing the ancestry of the fragment. I suggest adding a "parent element" selector for fragments, or perhaps logic that would contextualize the root node of the fragment submitted for validation. I think this would work as long as the fragments were at least reasonably well-formed. For instance, if you wanted to validate, say, just a table that would ultimately be nested within another, you might select TD/TH from a select/option element, submit your fragment, and the validator would synthesize a complete document for validation, with your fragment as the child of a TD/TH element in an otherwise valid document. Alternatively, the validator might guess that because the root of your fragment is LI, its parent must be OL/UL, and synthesize an appropriate template. -- Todd Fahrner
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