- From: Uriel Wittenberg <uw@urielw.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 12:57:17 -0400
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- CC: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>, W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
Kynn Bartlett wrote: > At 10:08 AM 10/06/1999 -0400, Uriel Wittenberg wrote: > >Correct me if I'm wrong, > > Okay; you are wrong. > > >but none of the various HTML 4 DTD's requires a > >!DOCTYPE in the document. Ergo, the validator can flunk documents that are > >consistent with an HTML 4 DTD. Ergo, the validator requires more than merely > >adherence to an HTML 4 DTD. > > >From the HTML 4.0 specification: > > A valid HTML document declares what version of HTML is used in the > document. The document type declaration names the document type > definition (DTD) in use for the document (see [ISO8879]). > > HTML 4.0 specifies three DTDs, so authors must include one of the > following document type declarations in their documents. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.2 Reread please. I said none of the _DTD's_ requires !DOCTYPE. -- http://www.urielw.com/
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