W3 validation <follow up>

Thanks for the reply Kate.

I'm puzzled by this as well.

I would think that as "web language" mutates and rejuvenates DTD's would
actually *increase* in importance.

Look at the issue we were discussing just last night. Values, and whether
we should or should not be quoting them *all* now.

It would seem to me that if a language was instituted that *required* the
quoting of values and browsers were created to interpret that language,
that when those browsers encountered legacy pages (say 3.2 strict) it would
choke and possibly croak.

A Language specific DTD (as they have always been) included in each
document could eliminate that problem completely.

Anyone got an opinion or maybe some insight on this?
Fuzzy.
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