- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:42:36 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Beton, Richard wrote: > It's no surprise that the W3C Validator (an HTML validator) does not > validate the HTTP parameters, which are probably considered outside its > scope. It's a markup validator (SGML or XML validator); it can be used for validating HTML documents, but the validator actually knows nothing about HTML - it simply uses the DTD given. (Or, one might say, as far as it knows something about HTML, it isn't a [pure] validator any more.) It is clear, and not just probable or a matter of arbitrary decision, that a validator processes CDATA declared attributes (such as http-equiv and content attributes in HTML) simply as strings. That is, do not expect a validator to give an error message about http-equiv="something i just invented" content="/%#+", because there's no reportable markup error. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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