> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:40:35 +0100 > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > > Ok. The more I think about it, the more I agree that it should be left > that way, ie that novalidate only cares about errors that are real > errors in every case, not errors of consistency. This means that the > "Pointer Validation" node should be modified to separate what > novalidate checks, I think it is only the point 1: > > 1. If a 'Next', 'Previous', or 'Up' node reference is a reference to a > node in the current file and is not an external reference such as > to '(dir)', then the referenced node must exist. > > So the part at the beginning about novalidate should only be associated > with that point.
IMO, it would be a shame to lose the other parts of the validation (if this is what you are trying to say). If eventually the decision is to leave some validation out of the default operation, at least please add some command-line option or variable to turn that back on. Being able to validate the structure of a document is sometimes very important.
