[Phpwm] new ste

Wed Feb 14 23:26:20 GMT 2007

David Goodwin wrote:
>> To make the validator work all you need to do is replace your previous dtd
>> and html opening tag with (note the dtd and xml definition are the first
>> thing on the page):
>>
>> <?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' lang='en' xml:lang='en'>
>>     
>
> I've not noticed the <?xml thing all that often; is it often not used?
> Or do few people bother reaching that standard?
>
> (<? also has that annoying property of being the equivalent of <?php on
> some stupid servers, and is quite annoying when you find it in 3rd party
> code).
>
> David.
>   
In my limited experience with XHTML I have not used the initial <?xml 
.... ?> line and my pages have validated successfully as XHTML 1.0 
Transitional with the W3C validator, the WDG validator and the Total 
Validator.

The W3C XHTML1.0 standard, at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/, says "An XML 
declaration is not required in all XML documents; however XHTML document 
authors are strongly encouraged to use XML declarations in all their 
documents. Such a declaration is required when the character encoding of 
the document is other than the default UTF-8 or UTF-16 and no encoding 
was determined by a higher-level protocol."

So that probably explains why we can get away with omitting the <?xml 
... ?> stuff even though we should include it!

Best wishes,

Peter Crouch
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Tel: 0121 523 6756
E-mail: pccrouch at bcs.org.uk

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