[whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Wed Apr 6 08:35:12 PDT 2005


Olav Junker Kjær wrote:
> There are three types of conformance criteria:
> (1) Criteria that can be expressed in a DTD

> (2) Criteria that cannot be expressed by a DTD, but can still be checked 
> by a machine.

Such as...?

> (3) Criteria that can only be checked by a human.
> 
> A conformance checker must check (1) and (2). A simple validator which 
> only checks (1) is therefore not conformant.

Which is exactly what I'm complaining about.  A user agent *must not* be 
automatically non-conformant for doing it's job correctly!!!

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