- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:09:27 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Eric Bednarz wrote: > 'DOCTYPE' and 'charset' are ambiguous terms in > themselves. The latter is usually either referring to an > encoding or to a repertoire, If somebody managed to declare charset=Unicode, let alone encoding="Unicode", and the validator then presents a nasty error message, it's okay. > the former is either a reserved name that can be redefined > in the SGML declaration or you can stop reading You lost me here, lacking SGML knowledge on my side. > What's certainly missing is an option to choose an SGML > declaration (including the one for XML). Or any hint that > would make transparent to a user what happened Yes... the example claimed to be something WAPFORUM XHTML, and therefore I tried an XHTML BASIC override first before transitional. But a user wants "do what I mean" if he has a "special" DTD, anything the validator doesn't know. The validator could cache popular DTDs if that's an issue. With the Unicorn alpha test 2 of my 4 tests failed, the 2 were documents with "unusual" DTDs (HTML i18n, CharMapML). Frank
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