- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:59:03 -0400
- To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, www-validator@w3.org
On Apr 29, 2007, at 19:11 , Shane McCarron wrote: > All XHTML family docment types should be processed using the XML > parsing mode of the validator. There is never a case where the > SGML parsing mode would work, since all the DTDs are XML DTDs, not > SGML DTDs. I'm really glad to read this. A long time ago, I was made rather confused by http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Sep/0024.html and the following claims made by some in e.g http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1500 that it meant the validator should not use its XML parsing mode to process XHTML 1.0 when served as text/html. This left me extremely puzzled for a long time because: * I never found any definition of "treat as HTML", nor any indication it was relevant to conformance checking/validation * the SGML parsing mode would not work with the XML DTDs, anyway. So your clarification is extremely valuable, thank you. -- olivier
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