- From: Ed Cannon {cannone} <Ed.Cannon@mccombs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:19:24 -0500
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Validating The validator told me "no doctype found", but the very first line of my document was: <!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> I was sure I had copied the doctype from somewhere on your site a long time ago. So I searched and found this one of yours: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> It took me a moment to notice the difference, that in the non-working one it's "doctype" not "DOCTYPE". I changed the case, and then it did not give me that particular error message. So my point in this feedback is that the validator should say in a case like this "malformed doctype" rather than "no doctype found". I swear I copied and pasted my DTD from you guys some years ago. Did the case of the word "doctype" not matter at some time in the past? Now I've got to update a hundred or so pages from "doctype" to "DOCTYPE". Ed Cannon Administrative Assistant Department of Accounting University of Texas at Austin
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