- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:26:29 +0300 (EEST)
- To: Sined <nightsbird@gmail.com>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Sined wrote: > The doctype in my (X)HTML documents is written in lowercase (but not the > formal public identifier) : That's a syntax error, since by XML rules, the string DOCTYPE must appear in uppercase. > At <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Nov/0099.html>, > that?s written that we get that error because of the SGML rules. I think you somewhat misunderstood the discussion - which was rather confusing. But the situation is rather simple: in SGML, the string DOCTYPE is case insensitive, in XML, it is case sensitive. > Now the question is : Must I write the doctype in uppercase or not? If you use XHTML, you must. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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