[Wolves] sematic web checkers

Aquarius aquarius-lists at kryogenix.org
Mon Dec 8 10:20:10 GMT 2003


sparkes spoo'd forth:
>> I am pretty much unconvinced that you can't have a machine tell whether
>> your page is *properly* marked up. You can tell whether it's valid, but
>> it can't know whether the stuff in the <h1> tag is *actually* the best
>> header without being able to read and understand the text. Which is,
>> er, a Non-Trivial Problem...
> 
> yeah, that's what I thought.  It thought perhaps some researcher had
> created a parser that says this is what I think is the most important
> heading, this is the content associated with it.  Perhaps in a tree
> view? then the developer could look at the feedback and say 'yes, this
> is what I wanted' or 'bugger it!, I'm giving up and using frontpage' ;-)

If you want *that*, your best bet is to go looking for an outliner.
There are quite a few of them around, and they essentially do what
you're looking for, I think...

Aq.

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