- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:34:30 +0100
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On 27.02.01 at 11:10, Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com> wrote: >On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Terje Bless wrote: > >>Slippery slope! Nice summation. :-) >IMO the slippery slope only starts when a document that would *fail* >validation to any appropriate W3C standard *passes* validation to >a custom DTD. > >Merely requiring some closing tags that W3C makes optional doesn't cause >you to cross that threshold. So I stand by my comment: the original >questioner can accomplish what he asked for without losing formal >validation. Yes. As a document author I see no problem with doing this. In fact I commonly encourage custom DTDs and tools that support them. _But_ this is a technique for document authors and not for Validators. Once the Validators make judgement calls about what DTD you /really/ meant, it's no longer a validator but rather a mere "lint". Bertilo's suggestion to move to XHTML is a better idea in this particular case.
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