- From: Patrick Lok <plok@inktomi.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 02:09:10 -0700
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
At 12:55 AM 10/5/01, Terry Teague wrote: >At 6:11 PM -0700 10/4/01, Patrick Lok wrote: > >I found that the DOCTYPE created by the latest tidy is not the same as the > >one created by the 04aug00 version. > > > >When I turn on "output-xhtml" and set "doctype" to auto the latest tidy > >gives me > > > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> > > > >where the 04aug00 version gives me > > > ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> > > > >Since the DTD file is missing from the DOCTYPE, it blew up my XML parser. > > > >Although the HTML code might actually be 3.2, since I turned on > >"output-xhtml", shouldn't the DOCTYPE be a XHTML DOCTYPE instead? > >There were a lot of problems related to DOCTYPE in the 04 Aug 00 version, >which we have attempted to address in the current code. > >The current implementation will output a XHTML DOCTYPE for "doctype:auto" >only if the document is/appears to be XHTML Strict, Transitional or >Frameset. > >So I believe Tidy is acting correctly in regards to your HTML 3.2 document. Although the HTML code that I submitted to Tidy is actually of version 3.2, I turned on output-xml, shouldn't the output be XHMTL? Thanks, Patrick
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