Re: another doubt on validator ...

From: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:23:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4354A30B.4040604@gmail.com> CC: Livio Mondini <livio.mondini@tiuvizeta.it>, www-validator@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:14:20 GMT

On 2005-10-18 09:08, David Håsäther wrote:

>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 //EN"
>>"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

[...]

> The validator will first use the FPI (-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 //EN) to
> look up the DTD in a catalog. If it is found there, it doesn't have to
> check the system identifier.

Actually, looking further at this, the FPI is unknown due to an
extraneous space:

  -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 //EN
                       ^

Since it is unknown, the validator will use the system id instead.

-- 
David Håsäther