- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@ltgt.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:31:55 +0100
- To: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:03:15 +0100, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> >> [...] And it is easy to explain that some old tools expect old doctype >> syntax, and that, for them, the HTML 5 specification has this SYSTEM variant >> of the DOCTYPE, with an about:URI in order to formally fulfill the DOCTYPE >> syntax. > > FWIW, <!DOCTYPE html> also fulfills the DOCTYPE syntax. It's just that some > tools cannot generate all possible correct DOCTYPEs. In their defense, <!DOCTYPE html> is completely useless in XML (and the tools we're talking about are mostly XML tools, even if serializing as "something that looks like HTML"). But yes, <!DOCTYPE html> fulfills the DOCTYPE syntax, so XML tools might very well allow you to output it too, whichever the serialization (XML or HTML). -- Thomas Broyer
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