[Bug 6448] New: Document Override goes to HTML 5

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6448

           Summary: Document Override goes to HTML 5
           Product: Validator
           Version: 0.8.4
          Platform: All
               URL: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-
                    pope.com%2Flistind7.html;doctype=HTML+3.2
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: check
        AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
        ReportedBy: ubipetrus@earthlink.net
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org


When a Document Override of HTML 3.2, HTML 2.0, or ISO/IEC 15445:2000 ("ISO
HTML") is specified, the validator attempts to parse the file as though it were
overridden to HTML 5, even while still admitting the chosen version of HTML.
For example, the file scanned with the URL given above contains no DOCTYPE
declaration, so I have attempted to parse the file using the HTML 3.2 standard.
 (I realize the file does not fully conform to the HTML 3.2 standard in that it
uses the <FONT> element inside the <PRE> element, but that should be the only
complaint, other than the lack of a DOCTYPE declaration, on that file)
The validator instead attemptes to parse it with the new experimental HTML 5
conformance checker and finds any number of complaints on the basis that the
file is not HTML 5 at all.
It reports "Errors found while checking this document as HTML5!" though later
on it reports "DOCTYPE Override in effect!  The DOCTYPE Declaration for 'HTML
3.2' has been inserted at the start of the document, but even if no errors are
shown below the document will not be Valid until you add the new DOCTYPE
Declaration."
If the source code is listed, its first line shows as:
1. <!DOCTYPE html>
One other observation I have made is that if the file already contains a
DOCTYPE declaration of the document type to which the document override is set,
the document is correctly scanned in accordance with the document type
specified in both the document and the override.


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Received on Monday, 19 January 2009 19:49:30 UTC