- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:13:25 +0200
- To: Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@gmx.net>
- Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
* Bertilo Wennergren wrote: >>>Looking at the source code of http://validator.w3.org:8001/ I noted >>>the text/html delivered XHTML 1.0 Strict document does not follow the >>>compatibility guidelines of the XHTML 1.0 Second Edition recommendation, >>>e.g. it uses only "xml:lang" to specify the language of the document (it >>>should use both, 'xml:lang' and 'lang') > >> Fixed in CVS. Will be in next update. > >This raises another issue: It would be very handy if the validator could >check XHTML 1.0 documents for conformance with those compatibility >guidelines. It would by very handy if it could HTML Validation right and complain on e.g. <img width='two elephants height' ...> HTML Tidy will eventually warn about violations of the compatibility guidlines and if we improve the error reporting mechanisms [1], get the library stable, write a Perl interface to HTML Tidy and finally incorporate Tidy thereby into the validator, we might get such functionality... but I fear such feature won't make it into this version of the validator... -- [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1216368&forum_id=1650
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