On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:53:40 +0200, Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [sorry if you get this twice, email problems being solved...] > > Andreas Neumann wrote: > >> The DOCTYPE is totally irrelevant > > > > well, but the DTD is necessary to validate the SVG. If you use a XML > > validator you have to reference the DTD. > > No you don't. You can validate the SVG using the DTD with an XML > processor without having to reference the DTD in the DOCTYPE. In fact > it's better that way as you can choose various DTDs. > > Use DTDs for validation if you want (they won't validate much but it's a > start) but don't use DOCTYPE. It's useless.
The most accessible validator is the one provided at validator.w3.org - it doesn't allow you to specify the DTD that should be used. It may allow you to select a "Doctype", but SVG isn't on the list that's provided. It seems to me that it's still useful to include a DOCTYPE in this case. Furthermore, for those of us who get emails saying "this page doesn't work in your SVG implementation" it would be useful to be able to throw the URL into the W3C validator to help in debugging without having to manually choose/type an SVG DTD URL as well. Even if DOCTYPEs don't have clear uses to you, why so strongly discourage their use unless they are actively harmful? > -- > Robin Berjon > Research Scientist > Expway, http://expway.com/ > ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
