- From: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:53:33 -0500
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Thank you for the clarification, that helps. Can you clarify how user agents and validators will know content is XHTML 5 as opposed to XHTML 1.1? Particularly if the DOCTYPE can go missing, I'm a bit confused by this. (In particular, I'm having trouble with the experimental HTML5 validator on the W3C site - that's how I started investigating this a little). Thanks, Jeff On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Jeff Schiller wrote: >> >> The spec states that XHTML5 documents do not require a DOCTYPE [1]. >> >> A DOCTYPE must consist of "<!DOCTYPE HTML>" (case-insensitive) [2] >> [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html#the-doctype > > The second requirement only applies to the text/html serialisation. There > is no constraint on what XML-level syntax (like the DOCTYPE in XML > serialisations of HTML5 documents) can be or do beyond what the XML > specification requires. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
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