Re: Notes on validome test suite / validators comparison

Hi Frank,

> Is than an
> issue in the "XHTML 1.0 transitional" schema or in your code ?

Neither an issue in our schema, nor an issue in our code. Our schema
validator in the current version simply verificates URIs in accordance to
appropriate demands:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/#anyURI
 "such rules and restrictions are not part of type validity and are not
checked by �minimally conforming� processors. Thus in practice the above
definition imposes only very modest obligations on �minimally conforming�
processors. "

As you know, there is no so simple as you claim to provide a reliable URI
check. At the moment Validome processes URI handling with help of a (simple)
schema validation ...It's not exactly brilliant, but - as we know - there is
no validaor at the moment, which handles it much better. It is necessary to
develop another *concept* for handling URI check. There is someone in our
team, who currently works on URI handling concepts in our validator. As
"URI" is a nontrivial issue, it will take some more time for modelling and
coding an acceptable solution for a sustainable URI check. This will be
probably in V3.0 (current version: 2.6.1).

BTW:
Validome supports validation of IDN domains since May 2007:
http://www.validome.org/validate/?uri=http://www.h%c3%a4ndewaschen.de
This would also make sense for the W3C-Validator, as it can not handle IDN
___domain validation till now:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.h%C3%A4ndewaschen.de&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Received on Monday, 22 October 2007 12:34:25 UTC