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

[Henri Sivonen]

On Apr 8, 2005, at 09:23, Lachlan Hunt wrote:

> If I ever get around to writing any form of conformance checker, true 
> SGML validation (most likely using OpenSP) or XML validation (probably 
> using Xerces or other XML parser) is at the top of my list.

If I ever got around to it, DTD validation wouldn't be my approach. I'd 
use Jing with Relax NG and a hand-written SAX filter for checking what 
Jing cannot check. (text/html could be handled by substituting a parser 
that inferred optional tags and appeared to the app as a parser parsing 
XHTML--like TagSoup without error recovery.)

> | 1. Criteria that can be expressed in a DTD.
>
> validation is a critical part of conformance checking.

You could check the same criteria either manually or using Relax NG. 
Using DTDs is not required.

> If CMSs are ever going to enforce strinctly conformant code, then DTD 
> validation will be a core component of that process.

Why bother with DTDs now that Relax NG exists?

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Henri Sivonen
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