- From: Nikita The Spider The Spider <nikitathespider@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:24:02 -0400
- To: "olivier Thereaux" <ot@w3.org>
- Cc: "Shane McCarron" <shane@aptest.com>, "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>, www-validator@w3.org
On 4/30/07, olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org> wrote: > > > On Apr 29, 2007, at 19:11 , Shane McCarron wrote: > > All XHTML family docment types should be processed using the XML > > parsing mode of the validator. There is never a case where the > > SGML parsing mode would work, since all the DTDs are XML DTDs, not > > SGML DTDs. > > I'm really glad to read this. A long time ago, I was made rather > confused by > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Sep/0024.html > and the following claims made by some in e.g > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1500 > that it meant the validator should not use its XML parsing mode to > process XHTML 1.0 when served as text/html. I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused on this topic. I puzzled about this for a while and never felt comfortable with my conclusions. I'll gladly adjust my validator to match the decision-making process of the W3C validator for determining whether or not to use XML parse mode. Thanks -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more
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