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Re: ISSUE-54: doctype-legacy-compat

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:51:03 +0100
Message-ID: <49720C77.508@gmx.de>
To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org> 

Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Probably I wasn't clear enough, sorry about that. My point is that there
> is no problem with
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "">
> 
> because it is not XML well-formed as there is no need for DOCTYPE in XML
> serialization of HTML5. For HTML serialization we can use anything which
> switches standards mode in the current browsers and can be produced by
> existing tools (including XSLT).

...and produces output that passes HTML5 validation.

BR, Julian
Received on Saturday, 17 January 2009 16:51:48 UTC

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