- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:22:39 -0400
- To: roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
At 08:43 PM 26/07/99 -0400, Liam Quinn wrote: >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.) Sorry, I think I'm wrong. I've checked with a non-hacked SP 1.3 and it does emit an error message. Please ignore my babbling. -- Liam Quinn
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