- From: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@rcn.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:40:35 -0400
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
Tidy has always preferred the lowest compatible version. This follows the time honored Internet practice of tolerating newer format/protocol versions but not requiring them of others. take it easy, Charlie At 05:20 AM 10/14/2002 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >* Terry Teague wrote: > >At 12:05 PM -0400 6/18/02, Malcolm Pateman wrote: > >>I have a simple question re. Tidy (I'm using the Mac BBEdit plugin) ... > >> > >>my code is HTML 4.0, but Tidy makes it into 3.2. Can someone help me? > >> > >>Here is an example: > >> > >><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" > >> "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> > >><HTML> > >><HEAD> > >> <TITLE>Testing 123</TITLE> > >> <META NAME="generator" CONTENT="BBEdit 5.0"> > >></HEAD> > >><BODY> > >>blah blah blah > >></BODY> > >></HTML> > > > >I reproduced your issue with the current (18 Jun 02) version of Tidy, but I > >also checked the above sample with a Validator, and sorry but it does NOT > >validate as 4.0 Strict, so Tidy changes the DOCTYPE to match the content : > >However, Tidy should resort to HTML 4.01 Transitional, not to HTML 3.2.
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