Re: Table Validation

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Terje Bless wrote:

> On 27.02.01 at 13:33, Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Nick Kew wrote:
> >
> >>Last time I checked, the correct behaviour here is to validate against
> >>HTML 2.0, but none of them do that.
> >
> >I don't think that is correct.  The HTML 2.0 standard says [1] "To
> >identify information as an HTML document conforming to this specification,
> >each document must start with one of the following document type
> >declarations."
>
> IIRC, we've rehashed this a couple of times and the conclusion was that
> HTML 2.0 is the _only_ version of HTML that makes the DOCTYPE declaration
> optional

This assertion is frequently made, but the quotation that I cited proves
the assertion wrong.

-- 
Liam Quinn