- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:41:10 +0100
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <49195336.8070404@kosek.cz>
Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> Proposal: Recursive doctype.
>
> <!DOCTYPE html public "DOCTYPE html">
>
> Alternative proposal: The even more recursive, and very difficult to
> hand author doctype.
>
> <!DOCTYPE html public "<!DOCTYPE html>">
>
> This doctype would be super non-cool since you could only safely use it
> with the help of an automatic tool, because:
With respect, such doctype is not "super non-cool" but simply silly as
it doesn't follow neither rules for proper public identifier nor it
shows that its in HTML5 only to accommodate legacy content producers.
> Would XSLT tools etc have problems generating such a doctype?
I suppose that there might be differencies in serializing < and >
characters between implementations as such characters are usually not
part of public identifier.
Jirka
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