- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:27:21 +0900
- To: Anderson Santana de Oliveira <anderson.Santana-De-Oliveira@loria.fr>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hello Anderson On Wed, Apr 06, 2005, Anderson Santana de Oliveira wrote: > The w3c validator does not complain about entity declarations in the > DOCTYPE section. Is it right for XHTML strict pages, or is it a bug? > Firefox, for example, does not understand either the declarations, like > the example below > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" > [<!ENTITY foo "bar"> ]> From a DTD standpoint, it's probably legal, but it's a behaviour discouraged by HTML [[ For reasons of interoperability, authors must not "extend" HTML through the available SGML mechanisms (e.g., extending the DTD, adding a new set of entity definitions, etc.). -- http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.1 ]] -- olivier
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