Gerald, I just began the work organization for an XHTML Test Suite, so I'm trying things in the validator. In http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#docconf 3.1.1 Strictly Conforming Documents A Strictly Conforming XHTML Document is a document that requires only the facilities described as mandatory in this specification. Such a document must meet all of the following criteria: 1. It must validate against one of the three DTDs found in Appendix A. 2. The root element of the document must be <html>. 3. The root element of the document must designate the XHTML namespace using the xmlns attribute [XMLNAMES]. [...cut...] 4. There must be a DOCTYPE declaration in the document prior to the root element. [...cut...] So we could have a very minimal document as <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </html> but this doesn't work. It doesn't work if you add. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head></head> <body></body> </html> But this one is OK <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head><title></title></head> <body></body> </html> -- Karl Dubost / W3C - Conformance Manager http://www.w3.org/ --- Be Strict To Be Cool! ---Received on Tuesday, 24 October 2000 08:20:07 GMT
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