Re: DOCTYPE versioning change proposal (ISSUE-4)

David Carlisle wrote:
> One possible disadvantage of the form with PUBLIC only is that it can't
> be used in XML so you can't easily preserve the versioning information
> marked this way into the XHTML serialisation.
> 
> You could of course make it well formed XML again by adding a random
> system identifier eg "" or about:legacy-compat but it may be clearer if
> the SYSTEM rather than public identifier were used, eg
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "about:HTML-20100401">
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "about:W3C-HTML5">
> 
> or something....

Could we use the URN (RFC 3151) variant, such as:

<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "urn:publicid:-:W3C+HTMLWG:HTML+20100401">

for the publicid "-//W3C HTMLWG//HTML 20100401"?


Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 1 December 2009 14:46:53 UTC