- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:13:55 +0100
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
On 06.03.01 at 16:31, Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com> wrote: >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. *sigh* Could those that had some sort of conclusive proof that HTML 2.0 made the DOCTYPE optional ("should" or "may"?) please holler? AFAICT, Liam's citation [1] specifically states, in prose, that a DOCTYPE is required for a conforming HTMl 2.0 document. Even if it later says that User Agents are allowed to guess in the absense of a DOCTYPE and still be a conforming _UA_, this does not negate the requirement that a DOCTYPE be present to actually be a conforming _document_. [1] - <URL:http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC3.3>
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