Re: False-positive validation errors

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I think everyone is aware of that, but no one has had time to fix this.
> Or, rather, that it handles your transitional files at all is a fix.

That is one way to fix it.  But that doesn't address the larger issue
that failing silently when there is no schema is a bug.  I have spent
a lot of time figuring out that the problem in my HTML is actually in
the validator.  I then found a place to report the error to XHTML-mode
owners.  They told me it was a problem in nxml-mode.  I reported the
problem on the nxml-mode wiki.  No answer there.  I waited a couple
weeks to be sure that was not a usable way to reach the maintainers of
nxml-mode.  Then I looked for another potential home for maintainers,
found this group and reported the error.  All that work was caused by
the error happening silently rather than being explicit.

If nxml-mode doesn't have a schema to validate a file, it should
disable validation and report the lack of a schema to the user.

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