NOTE: These slides have not been updated since 2003. They have been superseded by the book An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies Addison-Wesley, and the accompanying online material. Please see http://www.brics.dk/ixwt/ for more information. Anders Møller and Michael Schwartzbach, February 2006

THE XML REVOLUTION  -  TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

Syntax and validation

• every HTML document should satisfy this definition

• this can be automatically validated

• valid documents get an official seal of approval:   

• invalid documents get a list of error messages

Validating a concrete page is easy - ensuring that the output of a program is always valid HTML is much more difficult!

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