Re: DTD after cleanup without URL ? is it a bug ?
Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:43:04 +0200
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* Marc Gueury wrote: >I got a question from a tidy user saying this. > >After cleaning up a page, tidy add a DOCTYPE at the top that is not listed >here : http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html > >For example : > From tidy output: > ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > > > From the doc above: > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> > >I must say that I have no idea at all if it is the URL to the dtd is >mandatory at all. I looked in the HTML spec but did not found anything about it. >I tried also to find this in a SGML documentation but could not find it. > >Should I log a bug about it ? The system identifier is considered optional. Tidy has some logic to determine whether it should specify one but I do not have the details handy. http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html should probably be clarified that the list is "incomplete" and informative. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[email protected] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click