Posted by Runnin' on Empty on 09/14/06 23:34

"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
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> Runnin' on Empty wrote:
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> Why do you think it must still be invalid ?
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I gave a simple example... in this case, the simple fact that the Amazon
remote cart (or more exactly, the utilized xslt stylesheet), will return
tables with varied number of cells per row, depending on how many records
are returned per query.

This coupled with the many different hands manning various CMS functions,
and how they choose to format textual content will make it impossible to
validate.

The more layers of this sort of complexity, the further you get away from
static HTML templates, the less likely you can vet the HTML to ensure
validation.

It's simple... too many factors beyond the control of the developer, or
delivered by third parties, or auto generated... result, validation errors.

But that's all they are, as far as browser use, no problems.

I don't expect people wedded to the concept that validation is the end all
of development to either get this, or agree.

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