- From: Benjamin Niemann <pink@odahoda.de>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:15:33 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Frank Ellermann wrote: > > Benjamin Niemann wrote: > >> e.g. for an HTML or XHTML FPI the respective URI as defined >> in the specs. > > Okay, here's an example extracted from xhtml11F.dtd: > > | For example, if you are using XHTML 1.1 directly, use the FPI > | in the DOCTYPE declaration, with the xmlns attribute on the > | document element to identify the default namespace: > | > | <?xml version="1.0"?> > | <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "xhtml11.dtd"> > > If something sees this DOCTYPE and does _not_ know XHTML 1.1 > it's proably lost, because "xhtml11.dtd" is no absolute URL. > > Maybe it's smart and guesses an URL based on the //W3C// part > of the FPI. But I doubt it, and besides it won't work for less > famous organizations... Another reason why authors should be advised to use only SYSTEM="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" - anything else is either a typo or chances are high that the validator does not do what the author expects. -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/
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