- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:22:00 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > That verbal statement has no impact on validation, which is a purely > formal operation that must not pay attention to any attempts to use prose > to impose restrictions not expressed in a DTD. In fact, it must not even > see such attempts - it must be blind to anything outside the formal > part of the DTD. I'm curious as to why you say "must" here. A page that validates according to the DTD but does not follow the restrictions of the HTML spec is not valid -- so why does restricting the validator to the subset of the conditions that are describable by an SGML DTD a good idea? -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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