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<h1>Taxonomy of tests</h1>
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<p>A scheme with 5 different kinds of conformance tests of W3C specs,
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organized in 2 families:</p>
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<li><strong>conformance of Web content</strong>
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Created Date: 2001-01-17 by <a href="mailto:danield@w3.org">Daniel Dardailler</a><br />
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