[tei-council] whither HTML of Guidelines and @lang

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 23 Nov 2012, at 11:15, Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard at kcl.ac.uk>
 wrote:

> 
> I think this is correct (that is, I'm sure I've output XHTML1.0 
> Transitional with both @xml:lang and @lang in the past and never had any 
> complaints from the W3 validator, but I can't back that up…)

is there an XHTML 1.0 Relaxng schema we can drop in to validate the pages?
but see below re epub
> 

> Why do we need to validate the HTML output of the Guidelines?

well, yes. I like to do it, cos I want the same code to generate epub,
and epub validators insist on valid XHTML. if we get that right, everyone
else will be happy too, was my view


> If we produce HTML5 to the best of our ability, and don't get it all 
> right first time, what breaks?


nothing, i think. needs some CSS tweaks for reasons I don't understand
(my 5 minutes ended there). but it fails the XHTML validation, obviously
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