- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:51:10 +0100
- To: Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Patrick Garies wrote: > The primary benefits of custom |DOCTYPE| declarations lie with custom > |ENTITY| declarations; custom |DOCTYPE| declarations need not be used > for validation purposes at all (although this should be allowed, if > desired). > On the other hand, requiring |<!DOCTYPE html>| (with no subsets) or > forbidding use of the |DOCTYPE| declaration would be totally useless and > shuts out the possibility of things like this being possible down the > road in an HTML 5 document. > > — Patrick Garies With all of these points I completely concur. My point was that Henri had stated "The spec intentionally allows [...] any doctype in the XML serialization [...]", and I felt this was overly lax. The specification should (IMHO) allow any DOCTYPE that accurately specifies the actual dialect used, not just any DOCTYPE at all ... Philip TAYLOR
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