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HTML and version mechanisms
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By: Karl Dubost
Disclaimer: This article doesn't represent any kind of consensus in the HTML WG. It is an attempt at capturing the different opinions expressed on the mailing-list. There has a been a lot of debate in April on the HTML WG...
- html
- versioning
- web-architecture
- working-group
Validator 0.8.0 upgrade notes
The next version of the Markup Validator is gearing up for an upcoming release, and a really nice one. For those who are already maintaining an instance of the validator and want to play with it during the upcoming Beta test, or want to upgrade after the release, these notes will give a quick few steps to prepare the dependencies for the new validator.
SAXing up the Markup Validator: from Validator to Conformance Checker
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By: Olivier Thereaux
One of the main weaknesses of the Markup Validator is, it's a validator. That is, it compares documents to a machine-readable grammar of the markup language in use. The faster, leaner architecture we have been working on in the past months finally make it possible to check conformance criteria beyond the mere grammar-based validation. But would the validator still be a validator?