- From: Christoph Schneegans <Christoph@Schneegans.de>
- Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:25:45 GMT
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Frank Ellermann wrote: >>> http://schneegans.de/sv/ > > Interesting, I've just tested it. It doesn't like redirections That's intentional. This way you can validate redirect or error pages. For example, <http://schneegans.de/sv/?url=http://www.w3.org/404> shows an error. > and insists on UTF-8 for all documents without XML-encoding Absolutely not, it complies with <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_9> for "text/html" and with <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3023.html> for "application/xml" and "application/xhtml+xml". > Apparently I should really soon upgrade all lang="xy" to the correct > lang="xy" xml:lang="xy" Yes, this is required for XHTML served as "text/html". However, you can simply turn off the HTML compatibility check. > And it told me that if I try post-modern stuff like <fieldset> it MUST > begin with <legend>. That's correct, see <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2002JulSep/0105.html>. > That's apparently true (says the nice WDG HTML4 OS/2 INF file), but > why oh why isn't it in the XHTML 1.0 DTDs ? Because XML DTDs can't express such a constraint. -- <http://schneegans.de/> |
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