Doc type question

just_a_testing · Post by **just_a_testing** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:36 pm

I noticed that phpbb (here) as it as

<!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" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />

And just wondering why its not like

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

(mainly why aren't you guys using the ?xml part) - I have it in my site but it cause some strange problem with people that have a bad connection (I think) I know they recommend the use of <?xml in xhtml - but is there a work around or something I'm not getting? (sorry, I'm trying to learn more about the use of it and as to why I see so many sites not useing it though

), thanks.

Arty · Post by **Arty** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 5:46 pm

Its a development forum. Nothing is final including templates. I'm sure when it will be final all templates will have correct code.

SHS` · Post by **SHS`** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:18 pm

The XML prolog is not the DTD, in full or part.

If one reads the spec, they'd have found that XHTML1 doesn't require it:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_1" target="_blank

However, if you are sending XHTML with it's correct MIME type or just as generic XML, then yes it should always have the processing instruction. But if you knew about MIME type issues, you'd have know about the requirement of the prolog anyway.

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