Re: does it really exist any xhtml 2?

Gianni Rondinini <bugbarbeq@xxxxxxx> writes:

> i'm designing our new website [...]

> [...] i downloaded the extensive
> reference for xhtml 2.0

If your goal is delivering content for the web, you are completely
wasting time that could be used for much more extensible matters, like
kissing a girl, or boy.

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <?xml-style*** type="text/css"
> href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/style/xhtml2.css";?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 2.0//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml2.dtd";>

I recommend reviewing the system identifier.

> i was really surprised by the fact it was "not valid (no doctype
> found)".

Firstly, *if* you want to fiddle with XML at all, forget about DTDs and
subsequently DTD-validation altogether.
Secondly, use XML tools to do so.


Back on the track:

The W3C validator is beta software at best and a propaganda tool at
worst. I can't reproduce your results by the way, but something *could*
have been changed in the meantime.

FWIW, the moronic message 'no doctype found' is spawned whenever a
processing instruction precedes a document type declaration without
system identifier, no matter if the result is 'valid' or 'not valid'. I
Suppose there could be different scenario's where this happens as well.

There is an ongoing attempt to identify document 'versions' in the
validation result message, something that isn't technically possible.
Hence one kludge supersedes the other to achieve that ever since.


In future, I warmly recommend reading the status of a specification you
want to understand first.

<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/#status>
| This document is the seventh public Working Draft of this
| specification. It should in no way be considered stable, and should
| not be normatively referenced for any purposes whatsoever. This
| version includes an early implementation of XHTML 2.0 in RELAX NG
| [RELAXNG], but does not include the implementations in DTD or XML
| Schema form.



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