- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 16:57:56 +0100 (BST)
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Martin Duerst wrote: > I guess one thing that might be worth a try is to add an option > that lists the errors by 'seriousness', unknown elements being > more serious than unknown attributes. But I have no idea whether > it would be easy or difficult to order the error messages. SP generates messages at five "severity" levels. Code Valet uses CSS colour codes with <??? class="error|warning|..."> to help improve presentation to users. Unfortunately this is of limited use, because all validation messages have the same severity! > For XML, another approach would be to do two checks, one for > well-formedness and another for validation. Well-formedness > errors are usually much more fundamental. It can't hurt to offer that (though I'd make it a separate Form: adding it as an option in a single form would only confuse). > Nick, Terje, Bjoern,... what do you think? Apart from this, we could offer to turn certain classes of warning on or off. Liam recently updated the WDG validator to generate a more useful level of warnings, but didn't make it a user option (possibly he thought it would confuse users: Liam, are you listening?) But none of the above really gets us there. A more thorough review of parser messages could be on my own medium-term agenda, but I make no promises. -- Nick Kew Site Valet - the essential service for anyone with a website. <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>
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