Re: doctype placement
From: Liam Quinn (liam@htmlhelp.com)
Date: Mon, Jul 26 1999
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990726204343.0363bdd0@mail.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:43:43 -0400
To: roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Subject: Re: doctype placement
At 08:27 PM 26/07/99 -0400, Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Liam Quinn wrote:
>
>> This has the unfortunate side effect of allowing unrecognized DOCTYPEs to
>> go by without an error message while SP assumes HTML4.dtd.
>
>Sorry, I don't fully understand this. Can you give some examples to
>illustrate this?
When you use
DOCTYPE html HTML4.dtd
in your catalog and try to validate a document with an unrecognized DOCTYPE
such as
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FOO//DTD FOO 99.0//EN">
or
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//w3c//dtd html 3.2 final//EN">
SP will assume HTML4.dtd without issuing an error message. (At least this
is how my locally hacked SP behaves. I don't think it's from anything I
changed.)
--
Liam Quinn