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Posted by Mark Parnell on 08/12/05 04:35
Previously in alt.html, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> said:
> Mark Parnell <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au> wrote:
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>> Does CSE check the validity of the HTML against the DTD,
> I would have no problem with saying that it is not a validator even if it
> did that. The point is that it reports as _errors_ things that are not
> reportable markup errors. If it reported them as warnings, we might say
> that it is a validator with some extra features (as the W3C and WDG
> validators actually are).
I did think of that, and had the answer to my question been yes, I was
going to mention it. Since the answer was no, the point is moot - it
shouldn't be called a validator anyway.
I downloaded it and played with it quickly yesterday, and I found it
interesting that there is a "standards compliant check" mode - since it
doesn't check the HTML against the DTD[1], I wonder what "standards" it
is checking against.
[1] Yes, I know that the W3C documents are only recommendations, not
standards.
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Mark Parnell
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