Valid documents are well-formed, well-formedness is a condition of validity.
Katrina wrote:
Gday all,
I've been pondering this for a few days and I was wondering what other
people's take on this is:
David Hammond suggests that validity is not well-formedness, in that a
document can be
Are these documents really well-formed, they may validate. but with
warnings you should not ignore.
Warning Line 8 column 72: character is the first character of a
delimiter but occurred as data.
...ML 1.0 Strict, but it isn't well-formed XML. /p
Warning Line 8 column 72: character is
On 27 Apr 2007, at 08:41:53, Katrina wrote:
David Hammond suggests that validity is not well-formedness, in
that a document can be well-formed and not valid, but could also
be !!! valid and not well-formed.
http://www.webdevout.net/articles/validity-and-well-
Does the W3C validation mention
well-formedness? No.
But since the definition of valid includes well-formed, well-formed
documents should not validate.
Please do not quote Wikipedia, when the W3C sets authoritative
documentation.
The point with the Wikipedia was to show that it wasn't
But since the definition of valid includes well-formed, well-formed documents
should not validate.
Blame it on being Friday night! I meant: mal-formed documents should not
validate.
Kat
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Aside from namespace issues, validation deals principally with
well-formedness, as far as I'm aware.
If someone really believes the W3C is of no concern to people focused on
building well-formed documents, they should tell us what definition of
well-formed they are using. Otherwise this
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:39:16AM +0100, Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
He says that they are perfectly valid from an SGML point of view but
not well-formed. I think he believes that the validator only uses an
SGML parser, but it will use an XML parser when appropriate (XHTML
served with the
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Sorry, I should have mentioned it only works in Strict mode.
This is an excellent example of why not to use hacks, but use your design
skills.
Agreed, it's a mess, but Cole asked for a hack version. Conditional comments
is the best method.
On 4/25/07, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
I've come across a minor issue (may be no issue at all) that perhaps more
experienced be able to provide insight.
Applying padding to the container (or the OL for that matter), only applies
to the text but not to the numbering???
Can folks provide an insight. See atached. The pertinent css
The following may be of interest to web standards folk who haven't been
keeping up with the HTML Working Group and where HTML5 is headed:
On 4/26/07, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [1]:
There are people strongly arguing
that HTML should be a purely presentational language, much, much
Nevermind all. I found a work around.
On 4/27/07, Mark Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
I've come across a minor issue (may be no issue at all) that perhaps more
experienced be able to provide insight.
Applying padding to the container (or the OL for that matter), only
applies to the
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