- From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:24:05 -0500
- To: Tim Bagot <tsb@earth.li>
- Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:17:08AM -0500, Tim Bagot wrote: > At 2001-03-09T12:06+0100, Terje Bless wrote:- > > > >Yes, but just a few lines later:- > > > > > > NOTE - If the body of a `text/html' message entity does not begin > > > with a document type declaration, an HTML user agent should infer > > > the above document type declaration. [-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN] > > > > I can't find this note. Can you give me an URI? > > Ah. It turns out that this text appears in RFC 1866[1], but not in the > draft specification referenced by Liam Quinn. It's there [2] as a footnote: | HTML Public Text Identifiers | | To identify information as an HTML document conforming to this | specification, each document must start with one of the following | document type declarations. | | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> | | This document type declaration refers to the HTML DTD in section | HTML DTD. (11) (11) is a link to the footnote [3] > [1] <http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/html/rfc1866.txt>, section 3.3 [2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC3.3 [3] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_foot.html#FOOT11 -- Gerald Oskoboiny http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/ tel:+1-613-261-6630 mailto:gerald@w3.org
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