[thelist] doctype mess up

Mark Groen mark at markgroen.com
Fri Mar 28 16:19:13 CST 2003


On March 28, 2003 at 13:57, Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:

> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> 
> and use XHTML coding practices. (Which he keeps calling 'xml' 1.0
> syntax'). Why - I have no idea.

Unless you are going to actually need your site to run as an xml document, then 
this is not nessasary but it does make you look cutting edge. Not much to 
change over, you have to remember practically every element is lower case and 
things like the trailing slash for unclosed tags like <br /> and <img /> <meta />, 
etc. to get it to validate. Your header info example is incomplete, it should be like 
this to validate:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" /?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
			  "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Change that, a few search and replaces for the trailing slash thingee and lower 
case elements, validate, and Bob's your Uncle.

Kind of a waste of time if you aren't going to use it for actual xml use, especially 
if everything else on the site already is valid xhtml transitional IMHO.


Regards,

	Mark Groen

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