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Re: Softquad DTD?

From: ewitness - Ben Fowler <bfowler@ewitness.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:50:06 +0000
Message-Id: <f04330103b8840942a038@[192.168.254.56]>
To: www-validator@w3.org
>At 10:50 pm +0100 31/1/02, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>* Nick Kew wrote:
>>>Just encountered the following FPI:
>>>
>>><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//SoftQuad Software//DTD HoTMetaL PRO 
>>>6.0::19990601::extensions to HTML >4.0//EN" "hmpro6.dtd">
>>>
>>>The local filename for a DTD is of course useless (surely softquad should
>>>know better?), and http://www.softquad.com/ declines to load in Konqueror.
>>>
>>>Although it claims to be PUBLIC, none of the validators recognises it.
>>>Should we have it, or is it pure bogus?

A further thought on this.

My guess is that many of the people here also read
the html-tidy list, and the same sort of problem
crops up there, with the twist that tidy also
attempts to correct then problem, exempli gratia

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/html-tidy/1999JulSep/0154.html

Ben.
Received on Monday, 4 February 2002 04:50:14 UTC

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