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From: Karl Groves
Date: Oct 30, 2003 2:23PM

The mere fact that CSE calls itself an HTML validator is misleading. The word "valid" has a very specific meaning, and the CSE product does not Validate.
It's advertised and sold as a validator while it clearly *does not and cannot* validate. It declares pages with serious errors to be 'valid'
and valid pages to have serious 'errors'.

VALIDATION
"The process of evaluating a system or component during or at the end of
the development process to determine whether it satisfies specified
requirements."

CSE does not validate. An HTML validator would mark as pass/fail against the document's specified DTD. CSE doesn't even use a DTD to check against, so how can it validate?

http://webtips.dan.info/validators.html


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