- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:06:36 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:17:54AM +0000, Christoph Schneegans wrote: > There are much more so-called "limitations", see > <http://esw.w3.org/topic/MarkupValidator/XML_Limitations>. In fact, > the W3C Validator is totally useless for XHTML documents. I'd take issue with a couple of points on that page. Character encoding declaration in meta element only This is based on an informantive section of the spec which describes how to write XHTML documents that work with HTML user agents (or at least, HTML user agents which fail to implement NET tags). It doesn't define any constraint that markup is required to follow, nor does it define how clients should handle the data. Namespace declaration The prose of the specification imposes this requirement. The DTD doesn't. While it would be nice to have a tool that can check everything about an XHTML document, I don't think that is the goal of the validator. If a document is going to mention that, is it going to mention all the other requirements that appear in the prose? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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