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Bug 300 - Add Explicit Support for WML
Summary: Add Explicit Support for WML
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: check (show other bugs)
Version: 0.6.1
Hardware: All All
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: 0.6.5b2
Assignee: Terje Bless
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URL: http://www.w3.org/mid/20030725124505....
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Reported: 2003-08-27 07:38 UTC by Terje Bless
Modified: 2004-05-16 10:19 UTC (History)
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Description Terje Bless 2003-08-27 07:38:51 UTC
From Niek Bergboer <niek@bergboer.net>:

I was wondering whether the W3C validator could be made a
recognize WML DTDs. That is to say: I can validate a WML document
perfectly, but whereas e.g. for XHTML 1.1 documents the validator says,
in clear English, "This page is valid XHTML 1.1!", for WML it just
mentions that it conforms to the given DTD.

Note that this is merely a presentation issue. But IMO it would be nice
to have the validator say, e.g., "This page is valid WML 1.1!". 

For e.g. XHTML 1.1 the validator makes the following "mapping":

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">  ==> Means "XHTML 1.1"

Would it be possible to have it make the following mapping?

<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">        ==> Means WML 1.1
Comment 1 Terje Bless 2004-05-16 06:19:57 UTC
WML is getting increasingly irrelevant.