Re: 6. Are bare DOCTYPE declarations allowed?

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 21:33 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > 6.  Are bare DOCTYPE declarations allowed?  If we are to have HTML5
> > valid documents that are also MicroXML, bare DOCTYPEs will be needed.
> > No consensus so far.
>
> No strong opinion, except it's non-minimal crud.
>
> Maybe <!DOCTYPE sock> is useful, but I'm not really sure to whom or why.
>
> I always hated that <!DOCTYPE...> wasn't allowed _inside_ XML documents.
> That would have been awesomely something or other.
>

I do not think we should allow bare DOCTYPE.    I don't find the HTML5
argument compelling enough to add such a large slice of syntax.  I think we
should get used to having a processing stage that converts documents from
XXX format to MicroXML.


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