Re: <!DOCTYPE ...> required for HTML 2.0?

pflynn@oclc.org (Peter Flynn)

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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 04:41:05 EDT
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Subject: Re: <!DOCTYPE ...> required for HTML 2.0?
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> The current working draft of the spec says that an HTML data
> stream is supposed to be a complete SGML document, i.e. it's
> supposed to include the
> 	<!DOCTYPE HTML ...>
> stuff.

Picky but correct.

> i.e. which of the following are legal, and which are
> just "widely tolerated"?

Neither. Both.

///Peter