[Sussex] DTD and encoding ????

Mon Jul 11 20:49:59 UTC 2005

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:32 +0100, John D. wrote:
> Probably a dumb question, I'm trying to re-write my "works" site. As 
> usual, I'm having to re-learn everything.
> 
> For accuracy and standards reasons, I like to run my page(s) through the 
> W3C validator.
> 
> This is throwing up an error that I don't follow.
> 
> I've used this
> 
> *<!DOCTYPE *html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"*>
> *
> 
> but when I run it through the validator it tells me that

I tend to put the following before the <HEAD>

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

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

Differences:

- firstly, I tend to use strict - it's been a long time since I've needed to use elements from "transitional".

- secondly, I explicitly define a namespace.

It may be the latter that you need to do. I have to confess an empircal knowledge (ie - I know it works, I've no idea why) approach to XHTML :-)

Regards,
Mark