Re: CSS validator does not recognize standard XHTML DOCTYPEs

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 01:32, Richard Walker wrote:
> Hi.  I am using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE as specified in the
> XHTML standard (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/):
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html
>   PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>          "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> 
> The HTML Validation Service (http://validator.w3.org/) has no problem
> with this DOCTYPE.
> 
> However, the CSS validator does not like it.  It only seems to like my
> pages when I use the full URI, e.g.:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html
>   PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>          "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> 
> Could you please make the CSS validator accept the DOCTYPE as it is
> given in the standard?

See
http://www.websitedev.de/css/validator-faq

The CSS Validator does not recognize local system convention. This
should be fixed in a future version.

Philippe

Received on Friday, 12 April 2002 14:43:52 UTC