- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 16:06:33 +0900 (JST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com> wrote:
> I recollect reading some years ago in what I think was an official
> W3C spec (probably for HTML 3.2 or 4.0) that for back-compatibility,
> legacy documents should be parsed as HTML 2.0 in the absence of an
> FPI. Am I going senile, or has this been completely abandoned?
Abandoned. "B.1 Notes on invalid documents" of HTML 4 [1] says:
The HTML 2.0 specification ([RFC1866]) observes that many HTML 2.0
user agents assume that a document that does not begin with a document
type declaration refers to the HTML 2.0 specification. As experience
shows that this is a poor assumption, the current specification does
not recommend this behavior.
Meanwhile, IMHO, validators should parse such a document as an SGML
document rather than an XML document.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.1
Regards,
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Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
Received on Monday, 8 October 2001 03:06:44 UTC