A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 263

Authors: W: The W3C QA Group

The W3C QA Group

When not touring the world and putting other boys bands to shame, the World Wide Web Consortium QA Boys coordinate the development of validators and other web quality tools, spread the good word about web standards, and build a quality culture at W3C.

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More About Custom DTDs

Issue 199May 17, 2005

Your web page uses non-standard elements, so, following the advice of earlier ALA articles, you bang out a custom DTD to make sure your document still validates. Not so fast, says the W3C’s Quality Assurance team, who argue that crafting a custom DTD for the sole purpose of validation is a mistake … and then tell when it is the right thing to do.