- From: J. David Bryan <jdbryan@acm.org>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:53:31 -0500
- To: HTML Tidy List <html-tidy@w3.org>
On 9 Mar 2001, at 13:08, Mikko Saari wrote: > I don't know if I'm understood the function of HTML Tidy wrong, but I'm > a bit annoyed by the error message "Warning: html doctype doesn't match > content". HTML Tidy attempts to make an invalid HTML document into a valid document. For example, if the document is marked with an HTML 3.2 doctype but contains an INS element, then there are two ways to make the document valid: Tidy could delete the INS element, or Tidy could change the doctype to HTML 4.01. In this example, Tidy will use the second method. > I'd like to know exactly what's wrong so I could make it a Strict > document. If you want to ensure that a document is valid HTML for some version (e.g., 4.01 Strict), then place the desired doctype in the document and use an HTML validator instead of Tidy: http://validator.w3.org/ The validator will list every element and attribute that is not compatible with the version of HTML specified by the doctype. If you prefer an off-line validator, I would recommend James Clark's NSGMLS program that is part of his SP package: http://www.jclark.com/sp/ ...coupled with the W3C DTD: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd -- Dave
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