On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Mike Schinkel wrote: > Michel Fortin wrote: > >> But I think allowing attributes with no meaning to > >> validate will just reenforce the idea that they are > >> meaningful. If you use them, fine, but you'll have > >> a validation error there that will warn you that this > >> is no HTML. > > How about the validator be required to present an informational note, or > even a warning, but not flag as an *error*? That addresses your concern > as it would reinforce the idea that it is meaningless.
Validators are allowed to give any warnings or notes they like. (The spec only specifies that a validator must give no errors if there are no errors and must give at least one error if there are any, IIRC.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
