6. Are bare DOCTYPE declarations allowed?

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 21:33 -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> 6.  Are bare DOCTYPE declarations allowed?  If we are to have HTML5
> valid documents that are also MicroXML, bare DOCTYPEs will be needed.
> No consensus so far.

No strong opinion, except it's non-minimal crud.

Maybe <!DOCTYPE sock> is useful, but I'm not really sure to whom or why.

I always hated that <!DOCTYPE...> wasn't allowed _inside_ XML documents.
That would have been awesomely something or other.


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