7726 2009-09-25 10:07:28 +0000 legacy doctype syntax allows <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM"about:legacy-compat"> 2010-10-04 14:47:33 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC Windows NT VERIFIED FIXED NoReply P2 normal --- 1 julian.reschke ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking zcorpan public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 27657 0 julian.reschke 2009-09-25 10:07:28 +0000 Note the missing whitespace after SYSTEM 27707 1 zcorpan 2009-09-28 14:46:58 +0000 This is intentional, because the parser doesn't require a space there (nor between the FPI and SI). It's not an error in SGML, unless I'm mistaken. If you want the parser to signal an error for missing spaces, then reopen. It would result in a few more states to the tokenizer. 27709 2 julian.reschke 2009-09-28 14:58:18 +0000 It's an error in XML, as far as I can tell. The purpose of the legacy doctype is to allow specific serializers to produce conformant HTML5, so it's beyond me why we would want to allow that variation. Unless you have evidence of producers that require this. 27710 3 julian.reschke 2009-09-28 15:01:43 +0000 In particular, it contradicts: "In other words, <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "about:legacy-compat"> or <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM 'about:legacy-compat'>, case-insensitively except for the bit in quotes." 27720 4 zcorpan 2009-09-28 18:05:54 +0000 Personally, I think the spaces should be required, because it looks ugly without them. The space between "<!doctype" and "html" is required because it looks ugly without it. 27831 5 ian 2009-09-29 10:50:38 +0000 This resulted in three new tokeniser states. What a waste of the world's resources. 27832 6 contributor 2009-09-29 10:51:01 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4051. Check-in comment: Report parse error for missing spaces in DOCTYPEs. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4050&to=4051 27835 7 contributor 2009-09-29 10:53:03 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4052. Check-in comment: Authoring-side change for the previous checkin. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4051&to=4052 27841 8 julian.reschke 2009-09-29 10:58:28 +0000 That's not sufficient reason for a RFC2119-level requirement. 27850 9 ian 2009-09-29 11:15:02 +0000 As far as I can tell I did exactly what you asked for here. Maybe you reopened the wrong bug? 27865 10 julian.reschke 2009-09-29 15:33:33 +0000 Indeed. 33510 11 mjs 2010-03-14 14:51:47 +0000 This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy. If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.