- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 02:53:05 +0200
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: Klaus Johannes Rusch <KlausRusch@atmedia.net>
Klaus Johannes Rusch <KlausRusch@atmedia.net> wrote: >The beta validator at http://validator.w3.org:8001/ indicates the >following document is not valid: > ><!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM > "http://www.ibm.com/data/dtd/v11/ibmxhtml1-transitional.dtd"> >[...] >Any ideas why this is failing (the validator seems to not allow XHTML >notation with custom DTDs, validating the same document against the W3C >XHTML DTD works). Since the document is being served as text/html it's impossible for us to detect that this document should be treated as XML and not SGML. For documents using non "Well Known" XML DTDs you will have to serve the document as one of the XML MIME types (say, application/xhtml+xml) which will trigger XML semantics from the Validator. -- We've gotten to a point where a human-readable, human-editable text format forstructured data has become a complex nightmare where somebody can safely say "As many threads on xml-dev have shown, text-based processing of XML is hazardous at best" and be perfectly valid in saying it. -- Tom Bradford
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