On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Jeff Schiller wrote: > > The spec states that XHTML5 documents do not require a DOCTYPE [1]. > > A DOCTYPE must consist of "<!DOCTYPE HTML>" (case-insensitive) [2] > [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html#the-doctype The second requirement only applies to the text/html serialisation. There is no constraint on what XML-level syntax (like the DOCTYPE in XML serialisations of HTML5 documents) can be or do beyond what the XML specification requires. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 22:15:35 GMT
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