- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:03:11 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Terje Bless wrote: >> >>An honest description would be: >> >>The W3C Markup Validation Service is a free online service that can be >>used to check SGML and XML documents (including HTML and XHTML >>documents) against a Document Type Definition (DTD). This helps to >>detect a wide range of syntax errors in documents. > > That's actually bordering on beeing edible for a front page blurb. That would be ok by me. A bit complicated, but then what the validator does is a bit complicated. Of course the real solution is to add more conformance checking to the validator instead of continuing to only do the above-described restricted set of syntax checks. :-) -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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