Posted by Harlan Messinger on 02/26/06 22:07

Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> The problem here is that in an SGML/XML context, the term "validator"
> has a very specialised meaning, which matters (or ought to) to HTML
> authors. CSS is neither SGML nor XML, and those who care about the
> meaning of words would prefer not to have the water muddied by this
> kind of sloppy terminology.

I don't quite get that. Neither the term nor the concept "validator" was
invented or is owned by the people who wrote the SGML and XML standards.
It's been defined by them for use in those contexts, but that has no
bearing on legitimate plain-English uses of the word outside of those
contexts. As you say, CSS is neither SGML nor XML, so one need make no
reference to the SGML or XML standards to use the term "validator" in
the context of CSS.

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