Re: LYNX-DEV validating html

[Foteos Macrides]

Carl Reimann <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>
>> [ ... ] Peter Flynn is about to put out his update of the HTML Pro
>> DTD, which will be done in a way that's just as "official" as the
>> W3C and vendor DTDs, so it might be a good idea to refer to it as
>> well.  You might also indicate that it's the most appropriate one
>> for Lynx users to choose for validating. [ ... ]
>
>How does one use a DTD to validate HTML? I have used weblint and
>the "Kindler, Gentler" service up to now.

        It's installed on "Kinder, Gentler" (check its "what's new"
link), and you can get it for your own software as htmlpro.zip or
htmlpro.tar.z via:

        ftp://www.ucc.ie/pub/html

and can access the individual files via:

        http://www.ucc.ie/doc/www/html/dtds/

        But the update hasn't been released yet (Peter went off on
a trip without the battery recharger for his compact, and thus got
only four hours of home work done, so he's still catching up. 8-).

        The initial, beta release is too strict for real documents,
and has a number of errors or omissions.

        Also, although weblint is indeed kinder and gentler, and much
more helpful in explaining errors and what to do about them, for a
number of false errors with the beta HTML Pro DTD, it just tells you
that you can't have such and such a tag there, without explaining why,
and in fact you should be able to have it there.  So wait for the
upgrade, which I'll announce here.

                                Fote

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