Please remove FPI in sample ARIA DTD

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#xhtml_dtd


<!-- This is the driver file for a sample XHTML + ARIA DTD.

      Please use this public identifier to identify it:

          "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+ARIA EXAMPLE 1.0//EN"
-->
<!ENTITY % XHTML.version  "XHTML+ARIA 1.0" >



<!-- For example, if you are using XHTML 1.1 directly, use the public
      identifier in the DOCTYPE declaration, with the namespace declaration
      on the document element to identify the default namespace:

        <?xml version="1.0"?>
        <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+ARIA 1.0//EN"
                              "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-aria-1.dtd">
        <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
              xml:lang="en">
        ...
        </html>

      Revisions:
      (none)
-->


Please remove the FPI from this sample DTD.

Why? Because the following sequence of events have happened in the past:

   1. A W3C WG mints a new XHTML FPI.
   2. Some authors copy the doctype and use in their pages.
   3. Some of those authors serve their pages as application/xhtml+xml to  
XHTML browsers.
   4. Some of those pages have HTML entities like &nbsp; or &copy;.
   5. Those pages don't work in XHTML browsers.
   6. Browsers extend their list of magic FPIs that enable the HTML  
entities in XML.

It is painful, unnecessary and wastes time for authors and browser  
implementors.


The spec also says "To avoid competition with future formal XHTML DTDs  
that support ARIA, this is only a sample and has not been posted to a  
referenceable location." although it seems to be referencable from  
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-aria-1.dtd

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Monday, 22 June 2009 08:14:33 UTC