Mike Schinkel wrote:
That approach of saing "better tools should be provided" will work if and only if the people doing the specifying also *ensure* that there are tested, working tools freely available in the public domain on all major platforms, and that those tools are easy enough for the lay person to use in (almost) all contexts.
Work is being done on such tools now. A few of us have begun writing a parser in Python, which will be either public domain (preferably) or under a free software licence. I also have plans to write one in PHP, which will be public domain. Henri Sivonen has written one in Java for the HTML5 conformance checker, which is available under a free software licence. If anyone wishes to contribute or write one in another language, please do so.
-- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
