- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:16:25 +0900
- To: Martin Baird <chuzza62@ntlworld.com>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
Le 7 août 2007 à 03:52, Martin Baird a écrit : > a month ago a document with a root element of <html> passed Xhtml > validation, now it requires > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> > Not a large change for one or a dozen pages..... See Normative Definition of XHTML 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#normative 3. The root element of the document must contain an xmlns declaration for the XHTML namespace [XMLNS]. The namespace for XHTML is defined to be http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml. An example root element might look like: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> > I am writing pages for a website of 100 plus pages which I am > trying to > bring in line with W3c XHTML recommenndations, now most of the > corrections > are incorrect because you are moving the goal posts and your > validation on > my pages is incorrect. How many times must I correct these pages > before you > get it right. See About the W3C Markup Validation Service http://validator.w3.org/about.html Validating Web documents is an important step which can dramatically help improving and ensuring their quality, and it can save a lot of time and money (read more on why validating matters). Validation is, however, neither a full quality check, nor is it strictly equivalent to checking for conformance to the specification. > When you have got it right will you please let me know what the final > version should be See W3C Markup Validator Roadmap http://validator.w3.org/todo.html This page holds the development roadmap for the W3C Markup Validation Service. The validator is now in version 0.8. The *cool news* is that *you* can contribute to make its development faster. See Installation and development information for the W3C Markup Validator http://validator.w3.org/docs/devel.html This document is an overview of how developers can modify the Markup Validator, and how to contribute to the development of the project. It is intended for system administrators and developers. > and also get AMAYA corrected along with its crashing > faults. For this, you can read Amaya pages. See Bugs and Wishlist http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/Bugs.html Best Regards -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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