Re: DocType Setting Effect
Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]>
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* Jim Wiggs wrote: > When you set the doctype value to strict, does this have any effect >beyond controlling what DOCTYPE declaration tidy puts in its output? Generally speaking it does not. >Setting the doctype to strict does not seem to cause tidy to throw any >errors when encountering invalid XHTML as opposed to warnings. I'm >not sure if it just doesn't do this, or if I'm just doing the wrong thing. No, if you, for example, declare Strict in the document, and it actually uses Transitional features, you would get a message that there is a mis- match between the declared document type and the document's content. You should not get diagnostics beyond that. Also note that while Tidy can find many errors, it will silently ignore many, for example, if you forget to close certain elements, or forget to quote an attribute value, or, in some cases, if you use text content where it is not allowed. If you are looking for a tool that discovers all errors in a document, Tidy is not the right tool. -- 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/