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Posted by Sherm Pendley on 08/11/07 03:00
"Bear Bottoms" <bearbottoms1@gmai.com> writes:
> Well when I think of validating the code on my website, as an end-user
> I think of er, validating the code on my webpage.
A validator does indeed validate the code on your web page. But the terms
"valid," "validate," and "validator" all have domain-specific, specialized
meanings when used in the context of SGML and XML authoring, like we're
doing here. These meanings are not as broad or generic as the dictionary
definitions.
If you ask a musician and a banker to define the word "note," you'll get
two very different definitions in response. Likewise if you ask a butcher
and a prison warden to define "shank," or a diver and a politician to
define "platform," or a mechanic and a disk jockey to define "tune."
Domain-specific definitions for common words are not a unique concept; we
use them every day.
CSE is not a validator according to the correct, domain-specific use of
the word. If you think it is, then you have in fact been misled - whether
you're aware of it or not - by the author's incorrect use of the term.
> then I need CSE to do what more it can do for me than W3C.
The point isn't whether CSE is useful, the point is that Albert is calling
it a validator, when it's not.
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