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W3C's unified validator decommissioned; community can (should) fork

4 pointsby tripuover 2 years ago

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tannhaeuserover 2 years ago
Nb this doesn&#x27;t appear to be a validator but merely a frontend to various backends that perform actual validation, such as W3C&#x27;s classic SGML-based validator or nu validator for HTML, as can be seen in the sparse commit history.<p>Or, if it did perform validation, then only for the relatively simple case of XML DTD&#x2F;XML Schema validation coming with Java&#x2F;Xerces, which however has been irrelevant on the web for a long time now in the post-XHTML era.<p>Especially with W3C not bothering to publish schemas or other formal grammars in those areas they&#x27;re still relevant for, even when it would be possible, useful, and was explicitly requested by the community, such as for SVG 2, or ARIA 1.2+.