- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 07:28:37 -0400
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- CC: Kati <kati.pe@comhem.se>, www-validator@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Kati wrote: > >> It would be nice if the validator just took a glance at the META >> refresh directive. > > No, that would be quite incorrect. A validator is supposed to check the > conformance of a document against the DTD it purports to comply with. > Nothing more, nothing less. It is quite agnostic about the meaning of > any element. > No. A validator can do quite a bit more than that. While a pure XML validator might only check against a DTD, an *HTML* validator should check a document for conformance to the HTML specification. This specification(s) has some constraints that are not and indeed cannot be expressed in a DTD. For instance, there is the constraint that a elements are not nested. I am not sure if the META refresh directive is defined in the spec, but if it is we should check it. If it's not, we might still want to check it if there is a decent spec for that element and consensus on what should be there. The validator already checks some accessibility issues that are not spelled out in the HTML spec. We could check this too. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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