- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:34:01 +0300 (EEST)
- To: "Sam - fluffyland.com" <webmistress@fluffyland.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Sam - fluffyland.com wrote: > I suggest that the XHTML validator is changed > so that text within a textarea does not apply.. There is no such thing as XHTML validator. There is a markup validator, which you may use for validating documents that use an XHTML doctype. >if I have textareas on >my page, for example, it says that the a href tag cannot appear there. If the validator were changed that way, it would not be a validator any more. You can yourself create a document type definition that allows elements (markup) inside a textarea element, and validate against it. I don't know what this could be good for, but maybe you have some application in your mind. Throwing such markup at poor little Web browsers would give unpredictable results. > Thank you for such a wonderful resource! Unfortunately it seems that you have completely misunderstood what a validator is and what it does; for a short explanation (well, not very short; it's not as short as possible, but probably shorter), see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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