- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 02:39:32 +0000 (GMT)
- To: David Bryant <davidbryant@att.net>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, <www-validator@w3.org>
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, David Bryant wrote: > I understood you to be asking for a special access hook into the > W3C validator that would _assume_ the presence of a <!DOCTYPE> > statement even when no such statement was present. Nope. A default DTD does not imply a DOCTYPE. > Since the use of <!DOCTYPE> is part of the enunciated standards, > I couldn't see why such an assumption should ever be made. DOCTYPE is mandated by W3C HTML standards, and its absence is an error. I think the point was that the W3 validator treats that error as fatal, and that that may be having a negative effect by turning novice users away from validation altogether. By contrast, Page Valet treats the error as non-fatal, and proceeds to parse the page after reporting it. Outside of HTML, there is no universal requirement for a DOCTYPE either for SGML or XML. -- Nick Kew
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