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Originally Posted by StarkReality
Valid code is overrated, at least at the moment, google would crawl a slice of bread if you can somehow manage to get it online.
In the future this may change, so trying to reduce errors to a minimum is certainly a good idea, but for now there is no need to worry at all.
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I somewhat disagree, and from personal experience.
While it isn't the end-all of getting better rankings, it almost certainly helps. I've validated several sites and did see a few bounce out of the supplementals. While I can't prove that was the cause, there wasn't much else done otherwise. At the very least, it obviously didn't hurt.
Another way to look at it is that Google looks at just about everything, including whether documents are valid. So every area you can improve helps. Having said that I wouldn't obsess over it or "break" your site to validate.