On 28 Apr 2007, at 18:18:00, Stuart Foulstone wrote:
And, people do format their document with of headings, paragraphs
etc.,
which if they do correctly is called well formed document.
No, it means it's a _valid_ document. Well-formedness means
conforming to rules such as no use of the "<" or "&" characters other
than to start an opening or closing tag, or to start an entity
reference, respectively. Validity means conforming to a DTD.
See the definitions:
Well-formedness: <http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-well-
formed>
Valid: <http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#dt-valid>
Regards,
Nick.
On Sat, April 28, 2007 8:02 am, David Dorward wrote:
Stuart Foulstone wrote:
Validation concerns the correctness of the syntax of the code,
i.e. if the tags, etc. are properly coded.
Well-formedness concerns the structure of the document,
i.e. where in the document headings , paragraphs, etc go.
You've got those backwards.
--
Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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