Re: HTML DTD question & comment

Kerry Burton writes:

>  <!ENTITY % HTML.Version "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"
>    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">

> My question: Is the seeming inconsistency between the entity
> replacement text and the comment intentional, or has the comment not
> been updated, or what?  

As I understand it, omitting 2.0 means it refers to the latest version.
So at the moment they are identical; if an HTML 2.1 is released, 
they won't be.

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