Re: Table Validation

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Nick Kew wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Terje Bless wrote:
>
> >	 Once the Validators
> > make judgement calls about what DTD you /really/ meant, it's no longer a
> > validator but rather a mere "lint".
>
> Ah, but all the validators do exactly that, every time they encounter
> a document lacking a DOCTYPE declaration.  Last time I checked, the
> correct behaviour here is to validate against HTML 2.0, but none of
> them do that.

I don't think that is correct.  The HTML 2.0 standard says [1] "To
identify information as an HTML document conforming to this specification,
each document must start with one of the following document type
declarations."

[1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC3.3

-- 
Liam Quinn