- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:19:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
The validator can in general handle comments before the the doctype. Try
this out yourself. It works fine.
What the validator can't handle is the existance of the string matching
the regex /<[a-z]/i. before the doctype
So in the example given of
<http://bumppo.net/lists/macperl/1999/07/msg00316.html>
the problem lies in line
<!--X-From: Charles Metz <cmm98@doc.ic.ac.uk> -->
^^ Here
This is obviously a known issue with the validator, because from the
source code
last if ( $line =~ /<[a-z]/i ); # found an element
# @@ this needs to be fixed to handle commented-out markup
# which appears before the doctype
I was working on setting up nsgmls to automatically assume HTML 4.0 by
adding the line
DOCTYPE HTML4.dtd
to my catalog. I can't remember how sucessful I was at this. Assuming it
did work, with careful use of multiple catalog files at the commandline, I
think you can get nsgmls to complain about the missing DOCTYPE and
inserting it itself according to whatever heristic you want to use to
choose the DOCTYPE.
If I have time and I remember, I'll try to look into this tomorrow.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
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