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Posted by Steve Pugh on 03/18/06 13:33
xyZed <xyzed@xyzed.co.uk> wrote:
>I asked this question on the Dreamweaver site and despite adding a
>second post it still lies dead in the water after several days with no
>one caring to comment.
>
> I have Dreamweaver 8 and it's set to validate XHTML 1.0 Transitional
>but it misses lots of errors (compared to W3C validator)
>
>For example (and this is only on one page) it hasn't picked up my
>erroneous use of more than one "id" element, and missed a "end tag
>for "img" omitted but OMITTAG NO was specified". Plus it misses a
>"required attribute "alt" not specified" and even an extra </div>
>where a div was never opened
>
>I've been relying on dreamweaver's validator which is why so many
>mistakes have crept in as I've modified, checked an uploaded. I just
>wondered if it was known that Dreamweavers validator is useless? It's
>supposed to be a professional tool.
The "validator" in DW is not a validator in the strict SGML/XML sense
of the word. Instead it's a checker which checks some things that a
validator would also check but also checks some other things, and it
doesn't check everything that a validator would check.
It is also highly configurable and you can play with the settings to
make it check all sorts of stuff, or to ignore all sorts of other
stuff.
Use it as well as a proper validator. Don't rely on it alone.
Steve
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