- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:22:05 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
* Ian Hickson wrote: >On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >>>> >>>> Let me repeat: >>>> >>>> if element html has attribute xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' >>>> default to XHTML 1.0 Transitional >>>> else >>>> default to HTML 4.01 Transitional >So how would you implement it? A new start tag handler in preparse(). >>> Furthermore, the HTML working group has stated that user agents (and >>> the validator is a user agent) should not attempt to detect XHTML in >>> text/html documents. >> >> You don't suggest to adhere to this statement and thus treat XHTML >> documents as if they were HTML documents, do you? > >That would be ideal, yes. That'd make the validator useless for text/html delivered XHTML documents.
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