[whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM
fantasai
fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net
Sat Apr 16 19:03:06 PDT 2005
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
>> Ian Hickson wrote:
>>
>>> This doesn't stop conformance checker implements from writing DTDs of
>>> their own and then placing them in their SGML catalog so that the
>>> HTML5 DOCTYPE triggers that DTD, though. The point is that different
>>> conformance checker vendors should be able to write their own DTD for
>>> HTML5 to complement the rest of the conformance checking process. As
>>> the mix between DTD-based and other checking will probably be
>>> vendor-dependent, I don't see why we'd want to elevate any particular
>>> DTD to official status.
>
> If every conformance checker has to implement their own, there's more
> chance they some of them will make mistakes, and each end up with
> differing DOCTYPES. If that happens, then chances are each validator
> would give differing results, which is even more confusing and would
> result in no-one validating at all! If there is only one official
> DOCTYPE, then at least all validators would have a chance of giving
> identical results, and mistakes can be managed from one place by filing
> errata for it, and updating it as necessary.
+1, although I think "result in no-one validating at all" is over-exaggerating
a bit. :)
~fantasai
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