Re: Small website design . . . DTD Modification

by "Bert Doorn" <bert(at)betterwebdesign.com.au>

Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:53:22 +0800
To:	"HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
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Further to this, without rubbing salt in any wounds.

Take a look at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/   Have a look at the SOURCE of
that document - what DTD does this page on the W3C's own site (the HTML 4.01
Specification, no less) use?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

Nothing more....

Curious.  Is the W3C, who publish the recommendations, not practising what
it preaches?  Perhaps it is only a requirement in XML and XHTML, but not in
HTML4.01?

See also http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/sgml/loosedtd.html :

    The URI used as a system identifier with the public identifier allows
    the user agent to download the DTD and entity sets as needed.

If that's true, perhaps Netscape 6 has some problem interpreting the DTD
when it is added?
--
Bert Doorn, Web Developer
http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/
Beginners Web Design Tutorial
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