Re: Validator fails on PHP instructions inside attribute values from Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) on 2010-07-19 (www-validator@w3.org from July 2010)

From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:29:00 +0100
To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
CC: 'Dag-Erling Smørgrav' <des@des.no>, 'David Dorward' <david@dorward.me.uk>, www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <4C446F3C.5090200@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

Richard Ishida wrote:

 > Perhaps, what I really want then, is a checkbox on the validator page that says "Remove PHP code before validating", which does just that, and avoids treating php code as processing instructions.

And then someone else will ask for an option
"Remove ASP.NET code before validating", and so on.

To be honest, Richard, you seem to be asking for something that
it is not a a validator's responsibility to offer.

My two (old) penn'orth.
Philip Taylor

Received on Monday, 19 July 2010 15:29:44 UTC