Government Web Standards
Comments: 3.1 Documents validate to published formal grammars
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Thanks --AnneMarie Curtis 18:04, 29 October 2007 (NZDT)
Formal Grammars:
I think the wording here needs to be improved...The (x)HTML formal grammars are specified the DTD which both SGML and XML validators validate against. XHTML is an application of XML so XHTML docs will validate using a validating xml parser of which there are many.
The advantage of having html documents that validate, is that these documents share the same semantic intent.
Grant 09:44, 13 July 2008 (NZST)
Elements are closed properly
The 'well formed' criteria for SGML and XML differ. It is not a requirement in SGML grammars that "Elements are closed properly" so that a a html document might validate yet not be 'well formed'. A validated xhtml document however will always ensure "Elements are closed properly". A html document may also not validate to a DTD yet be a well formed xml document. The advantage of having html documents that are well-formed( in the xml application 'Elements are closed properly' sense)is not spelled out, yet documents that automatically become more machine processable.
I think the specification should say: Marked up documents ought be well-formed ...
*Elements are closed properly
Rational: ... Grant 10:34, 13 July 2008 (NZST)
