- From: Brian Gilkison <gilkison@one.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:30:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: Uriel Wittenberg <uw@urielw.com>
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Uriel Wittenberg wrote: >Brian Gilkison wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I'd have to agree with Kynn -- take a look at the actual >> DTD for Transitional, for example, at >> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd, and you'll see the the !DOCTYPE >> definition IN the DTD (line 24?)... > >The only "!DOCTYPE" found in a search of that DTD is part of a comment. > Can anyone else enlighten me on this issue? When I look at the DTD publsihed at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd, I see an extensive comment at the start of the DTD (opens with "This is the HTML 4.0 Transitional DTD, which includes..." and ends with "Further information about HTML 4.0 is available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40". The comment is closed with "-->"; I then see an entry which I would interpret as the !DOCTYPE definition in the DTD itself: <!ENTITY % HTML.Version "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" True, there is an extensive comment included as part of that <!ENTITY statement, but the entity itself is not commented... (?) I'm sorry if this is seen as dragging an issue out, but I'm truly trying to understand how the DTD works at this point... Brian -- > Brian Gilkison | http://w3.one.net/~gilkison/ < > gilkison@one.net | finger for PGP Public key < > < > A good pun is it's own reword. <
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