- From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:24:04 -0500
- To: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 06:11:50PM -0500, Christian Smith wrote: > Problem: The W3 Validator validates a 4.0 Transitional document against > the 4.0 Transitional DTD but then provides a reference pointing to the > 4.01 DTD. > > Exp: <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.barebones.com/> > > Extracted from the HTML generated by this page: > > > <li>Document type: > > <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/"> > > HTML 4. > > </a> > > Transitional > > </li> Sorry about that, fixed. Er... at least I think so. I need to check with a few other people here. I'll follow up more tomorrow. > This is not so much a W3 Validator problem as a W3 problem in that > apparently W3 has decided to not only remove the 4.0 DTDs that were at > > * <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd> > * <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/frameset.dtd> > * <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd> > > but to actually replace the DTDs that were at this location with the new > 4.01 DTDs. This is bad. There are now tools out there that generate HTML > 4.0 Transitional documents with a DOCTYPE of > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> > > But now we have a 4.0 Transitional document with a DOCTYPE that points to > a DTD that is for 4.01 Transitional. : I'll take this up with our communications people; I think it might just be a symlink pointing to the wrong place in our filesystem. -- Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org> +1 617 253 2920 System Administrator http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/
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