Re: Doctype, Doctype, who got the Doctype?

Paul,

I'll bet you already know the answer to your own question, but what da heck:

The only way (I can see) is to gain enough familiarity with the dialects of
the language to be able to recognize them on sight. I would not suggest
this had you not stressed that you have quite a number of documents
generated (and modified) by many different editors. The "trial and error"
method (of pasting in a random DTD and validating it) seems quite
unreasonable.

But I guess you could just use the 4.X transitional, Lord knows there is
very little that isn't covered under that placebo umbrella <wink>.

BTW, *not* all editors change/modify you code when you open a file in them.
As a matter of fact, I don't think I have ever seen an ASCII text editor
(of any brand name) change a file.

HTH,
Fuzzy.

At 08:44 AM 2/6/01 -0500, Villano, Paul wrote:
>Here's the deal.  I have .html files...files...lots of files...sorry, lost
>control for a moment...Anyway, these are .html files that were produced in
>several different editors and run through several editors.  The thing is, as
>you know, every editor "cleans up" files based on different criteria.  So
>the result is that these files have been changed several ways by several
>editors, including having the comments stripped.  My main issue is that in
>stripping out comments, the DOCTYPE was also stripped.  So I don't know what
>the doctypes are for these files.  Transitional?  Standard?  Final?  3.2?
>4.0?  I'm not smart enough to know.  Is there a simple way to tell what
>doctypes the files are and put the appropriate doctype in place?  I know
>this is a dumb question, so be genlte.  :)  Because I have files...lots of
>files...so many...
>

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