Re: Bug in validator with HTML 4 documents that are towards at XHTML c

From: Claus Färber (list-w3c-html-validator@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Tue, Feb 01 2000


Date: 02 Feb 2000 00:22:00 +0100
From: list-w3c-html-validator@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber)
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <7Y52e6nocDB@faerber.muc.de>
Subject: Re: Bug in validator with HTML 4 documents that are towards at XHTML c

Marc A. Donges <marc@kalle.yodanet.schwaebischhall.de> schrieb/wrote:
> I recently tried to make my documents, which complied with HTML 4.0
> Transitional, as compatible with XHTML 1.0 as possible (whithout
> switching the DTD yet).

You can't do this. SGML-based HTML and XHTML use incompatible SGML  
declatations (as XHTML is based on XML).

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