XHTML 1.0: use of relative URIs to reference DTDs

Hi,

The XHTML 1.0 recommendation gives the following examples:

[...]
<!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
     "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
     "DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
[...]

People use these by copy&paste them into their documents. They fail of cause
to make local copies of the DTDs, so the URIs are resolved to a URI where the
DTDs cannot be found.

Future versions of XHTML should only reference absolute URIs to avoid this
problem.

regards,
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Received on Sunday, 1 October 2000 00:04:43 UTC