- From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Date: 08 Apr 2002 16:18:46 +0300
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 03:52, Terje Bless wrote: [...] > >I think that the DOCTYPE syntax requires specification of the URI > >(quoted) of the DTD file following the name of the DTD. > > Nope. The URI following the FPI is really just a "System Identifier"; a > system specific way to find the DTD in question when the FPI is not in the > local catalog. Since we do have HTML 2.0 in our catalog, the SI would never > get used. But one should keep in mind that the system id is required in X(HT)ML, the public id is not enough [1]. In earlier HTML versions the system id is optional (IIRC). [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-external-ent -- Ville Skyttä ville.skytta@iki.fi
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