[whatwg] Using the HTML5 DOCTYPE as a new quirksmode switch

Sat Mar 10 06:20:01 PST 2007

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:43:44 +0100, Elliotte Harold  
<elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

> Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
>
>> The tutorials will just say "Use <!DOCTYPE html>".
>>
>
> What are those of us who wish to use XML tools on our documents supposed  
> to use? We will need a real DTD at some point, to declare the entities  
> if nothing else. We will not be able to use <!DOCTYPE html>.

"<!DOCTYPE html>" is for text/html, not for XML. For XML you could either  
drop the doctype altogether, or, if you really want to point to a DTD, you  
could just use the system identifier (the public identifier won't do  
anyone any good), or you could use the internal subset.

Why would you need to declare entities, though?

-- 
Simon Pieters