- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:40:23 +1100
- To: Jonatan Lander <jonatan@wineasy.se>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Jonatan Lander wrote: >> The requirement for a name attribute with some types of inputs but not >> others is not expressed in the DTD... > > Hmm. I'm not sure how to interpret this. Is the requirement real and the > fact that the validator doesn't catch this a limitation of the validator > (and/or of the DTD representation of the specification), It is not possible to express this requirement within the DTD, thus the validator will not catch the error. > or is the requirement in fact not a requirement in the normative sense, > since it isn't expressed in the DTD? The inability to express a requirement within the DTD does not make it any less of a requirement, it is simply a requirement that cannot checked by the validator. > Is the document valid or not? It is technically valid according to the DTD, but it is not conformant with the HTML 4.01 recommendation. Validation is only one aspect of conformance and the validator is just a tool. 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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