Re: ISSUE-54: doctype-legacy-compat (leaking into ISSUE-4 (html-versioning))

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 11:35 +0000, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> [...]I therefore propose that the HTML 5 DOCTYPE should include,
> /at the very least/ the major (5) and minor (initially 0)
> elements of its version number.

We were having a nice discussion about issue-54;
as far as I could tell, we had consensus
on about:sgml-compat. 

Your proposal is more relevant to
  ISSUE-4 (html-versioning): HTML Versioning and DOCTYPEs
  http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/4

Please, don't cross the streams! If you're changing issues,
change the subject header... and consider a new thread
altogether.



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>   I do not know which keywords
> could legitimately replace "about" in the last example above,
> but a DOCTYPE along the lines of :
> 
> 	<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "V:5.0">
> 
> 		or
> 
> 	<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "version:5.0">
> 
> would address all of my concerns on this issue.
> 
> By so doing, this would ensure that when the specification
> is revised following its formal publication (as it surely
> will be), documents authored against the revised specification
> will be able to indicate this through their DOCTYPE, thereby
> ensuring that a validator is able to identify the correct version
> of the specification against which to check conformity.
> 
> Philip TAYLOR
> 
> 
> 
> 
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