FAQ: What is Validation?
- Here is a quotation from the W3C about this:
As for every language, these [computer languages] have their own grammar, vocabulary and syntax, and every document written with these computer languages are supposed to follow these rules. …
The process of verifying whether a document actually follows the rules for the language(s) it uses is called validation, and the tool used for that is a validator. A document that passes this process with success is called valid.
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