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Re: HTML Validator and CythiaSays

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From: John Britsios
Date: Oct 30, 2003 7:01PM

I also wanted to say that there is more than one definition of the word validator. CSE HTML Validator has never sold itself as a "formal" DTD validator.
It is a validator in the common definition of the word, the definition that most people use.

John

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From: "Karl Groves" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "John Britsios" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >; < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:19 PM
Subject: RE: HTML Validator and CythiaSays


> 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'.
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> 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."
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> 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?
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> http://webtips.dan.info/validators.html
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