Robin Berjon wrote: > Jonathan Watt wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:53:40 +0200, Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>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. >> Even if DOCTYPEs don't have clear uses to you, why so strongly >> discourage their use unless they are actively harmful? > > There's a bunch of issues, but just to pick a few: [snip] > So when they say OK they really haven't checked anything, when they say > NOT OK they might be on crack, and like all namespace-unaware things > they're a dead branch of the XML tree. But feel free to use them anyway :)
So, I suppose I should remove them from my XHTML pages as well :-) Hmm, perhaps no, I believe we should avoid the <?xml version="1.0"...?> line because some browsers choke on it, and some (other?) browsers need this DOCTYPE line to choose a behavior on HTML/CSS rendering... If I am wrong, please correct me (sorry if this is sligtly off topic, although SVG is usually embeded in (X)HTML...). -- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- For servers mangling my From and Reply-To fields, -- please send private answers to PhiLho(a)GMX.net -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ----- 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/
