suggestion: option "check XML wellformedness"

• From: Helmut Richter <hhr-m@web.de>
• Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:13:35 +0200 (CEST)
• To: www-validator@w3.org
• Message-ID: <142ce9bf-80de-20ed-59b-10843549aa5d@web.de>

I suggest to add a new option "check XML wellformedness" to the WWW
validator. If this option is selected by the user, violations of
wellformedness shall be reported as warnings.

I am aware that XML wellformedness, in particular closing each element by
a closing tag </...> or using clopening tags <.../>, is not a requirement
for syntactically correct HTML5 text. If, however, a project decides to
adhere to wellformedness in their HTML usage, detecting violations can
substantially aid in identifying potential problems irrespective of
whether the HTML text is produced by humans or by software.

Thank you for considering this suggestion.

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Helmut Richter

Received on Tuesday, 20 September 2022 07:40:08 UTC