validator suggestion from Don Russell on 2003-12-01 (www-validator@w3.org from December 2003)

From: Don Russell <drussel2@san.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:42:59 -0800
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <1070260978.4029.56.camel@localhost.localdomain>

A very simple, yet useful enhancement to the validator is the addition
of some meta tags to make the results more useful for automated
validation.

For example, I write programs that produce (x)html.. it would be great
if I could add a step to my process that validates the results and the
results easily read by a program.

In the case of a successful test where the validated page meets all the
requirements use a meta variable to return the link that may be included
in the page:

<meta name="status" content="pass">
<meta name="icon" content="&lt;a
href=&quot;http://validator.w3.org/check/referer&quot;&gt;&lt;img
border=&quot;0&quot;
          src=&quot;http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401&quot;
          alt=&quot;Valid HTML 4.01!&quot; height=&quot;31&quot; width=&quot;88&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;">

The program could read the icon meta variable, translate the meta charters (&lt; etc) back to html and then add the html anchor could be added automatically.


In the other case, where the page doesn't validate properly, 
<meta name="status" content="fail">
<meta name="icon" content="&nbsp;">

Thank you for your consideration of this idea... I think it is generally
usefull, and simple to implement.

Best regards,
Don Russell

Received on Monday, 1 December 2003 10:22:49 UTC