Re: doctype header

by "grandane" <grandane(at)grandane.com>

Date:	Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:48:41 -0400
To:	<hwg-style(at)hwg.org>
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Hi one and all,

Am hoping someone can help?  Have validated all pages on small website as
valid
xhtml (transitional), both when online and from files on my computer, both
sources
receive validation but, one page, altho validated from file on computer,
will not validate when posted online.....says page lacks 'encoding
information' and without encoding information impossible to validate? (All
the above validated pages have same info in doctype heading?)

I am using the following (without the underlining):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Incidently, bought book on XHTML and the above is the info recommended
using?  Is the above correct or is there something else I should be using.
Have been to all the places one is directed for encoding info, sorry to say
none of it makes sense to me so I am getting nowhere.....another thing I see
mentioned at W3C is
character sets.....is this something else that should be added to the above
doctype?

Any help would be sincerely appreciated.

TIA

Pat

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