- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:22:16 +1000
- To: Luca Mascaro <info@lucamascaro.info>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Luca Mascaro wrote: > I find a problem in HTML validator. > > If we submit an HTML with a strange language code the validator dont' > control this code. I assume that means, it just doesn't issue an error? > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="italiano" > lang="italiano"> It's not a bug, it's a limitation with what can be validated with a DTD based validator. The lang and xml:lang attributes are defined as CDATA, which means any ordinary character data. The DTD does not contain a list of all known language and country codes, so the validator can't check you've used a valid one. This just illustrates the difference between a "valid" document and a "conformant" document. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ http://GetFirefox.com/ Rediscover the Web http://GetThunderbird.com/ Reclaim your Inbox
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