- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:23:11 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: "Michael A.Puls II" <shadow2531@gmail.com>, public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>
I do not understand what benefit could accrue from allowing the incorporation of a DOCTYPE that conflicts with the actual syntax of the document. Philip TAYLOR -------- Henri Sivonen wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2008, at 13:53, Michael A. Puls II wrote: > >> That makes perfect sense to me. It's making it clear that such XML >> documents may contain <!DOCTYPE html>. That sounds a lot better than >> "a DOCTYPE", which could mean any doctype. > > > The spec intentionally allows no doctype or any doctype in the XML > serialization, because placing restrictions on the doctype would violate > spec layering and micromanage syntax on the XML layer.
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