- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:26:35 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >>> >>> Let me repeat: >>> >>> if element html has attribute xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' >>> default to XHTML 1.0 Transitional >>> else >>> default to HTML 4.01 Transitional >> >> No offense, but that is _hopelessly_ naiive. > > I don't think so... So how would you implement it? >> Furthermore, the HTML working group has stated that user agents (and >> the validator is a user agent) should not attempt to detect XHTML in >> text/html documents. > > You don't suggest to adhere to this statement and thus treat XHTML > documents as if they were HTML documents, do you? That would be ideal, yes. At the moment, that the validator tries to autodetect XHTML sent as text/html causes it to claim certain documents are invalid even when they are technically correct. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0082.html -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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