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Bug 8 - Mssing DOCTYPE should not refuse Validation Completely.
Summary: Mssing DOCTYPE should not refuse Validation Completely.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: check (show other bugs)
Version: 0.6.0b1
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Terje Bless
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URL: http://validator.w3.org:8001/check?ht...
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Blocks: 7
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Reported: 2002-10-24 18:55 UTC by Terje Bless
Modified: 2005-02-03 17:35 UTC (History)
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Description Terje Bless 2002-10-24 18:55:32 UTC 
From Björn Höhrmann:

   I don't see any good reason to refuse validation completly. It's very
   simple to choose document types to default to, e.g.

     if element html has attribute xmlns
       default to XHTML 1.0 Transitional
     else
       default to HTML 4.01 Transitional
Comment 1 Terje Bless 2002-10-25 04:26:03 UTC 
Ditching the DOCTYPE guessing code was done intentionally. Tagging this as
WONTFIX/NOTABUG.