- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:42:37 -0500
- To: www-validator Community <www-validator@w3.org>
- Cc: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
On Jun 21, 2007, at 14:33 , olivier Thereaux wrote: > In XML mode, it would see that the root is not <html>, and thus > consider it well-formed XML, end of the story. > In SGML mode > -> if the root element is <html> it would fall back on HTML 4.01 > Transitional, and shoot a warning about that. > -> otherwise... nothing happens. I think this is the bug we're > seeing here. > I'm adding a warning saying "no doctype found,and unknown root > element. Aborting validation". Now for the tricky question: should > it say "invalid (no doctype found)"? Validity doesn't really apply > here... e.g http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/check?fragment=%3Cfoo%3E http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/check?fragment=%3Cfoo%3E;debug=1 -- olivier
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