[Bug 4372] [Serialization] Lexical checking of doctype-public

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4372





------- Comment #6 from davidc@nag.co.uk  2007-03-16 10:06 -------
I'd strongly argue that the HTML serialisation should not enforce particular
PUBLIC ID values, certainly that would be a potentially breaking change not a
fix for an erratum. But even if compatibility with the existing practice was
not a concern I would still think that this would be a bad idea. The FPI is
(was) _intended_ to be locally adapted, There have been dozens of HTML FPI
published (and probably many more not published) see for example
http://dbaron.org/mozilla/doctypes
for one list. At most the HTML method could check that the value matches the
FPI
syntax

http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/tauber-fpi.html,

but I think that a consistent thing to do is just check the (simpler) XML rule
even in the html case.

David