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Bug 5511 - Saying no DOCTYPE Found - but there is one in the code.
Summary: Saying no DOCTYPE Found - but there is one in the code.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: check (show other bugs)
Version: HEAD
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2008-02-28 21:49 UTC by kmcrae
Modified: 2008-04-17 12:01 UTC (History)
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Description kmcrae 2008-02-28 21:49:22 UTC 
The validator is treating all pages with 1 error - No Doctype found.  This same page was just valid a day ago and now everything I put through the validator is coming up with that same message even though the DOCTYPE is there and all other head information is correct.
Comment 1 Olivier Thereaux 2008-02-29 12:18:58 UTC 
Can you give the address of the page you are validating, please? 
The bug report is useless without it.

thanks.
Comment 2 Simon Jones 2008-03-06 09:57:36 UTC 
I'm getting this error as well on all of my site validations. Tried a few rrandom sites and got the same result even when a doctype is specified. For example: news.bbc.co.uk.
Comment 3 Edward Mulroy 2008-03-06 10:04:39 UTC 
URL of documents which demonstrate this bug:

http://home.nc.rr.com/emulroy/law.htm 
All of the 70+ files on that site have the problem. 
About 6 are loose.dtd, the rest are strict.
Comment 4 Olivier Thereaux 2008-03-06 12:18:46 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm getting this error as well on all of my site validations. Tried a few
> rrandom sites and got the same result even when a doctype is specified. For
> example: news.bbc.co.uk.

I don't see a "no doctype found" issue here.


(In reply to comment #3)
> http://home.nc.rr.com/emulroy/law.htm 

This page validates fine. no error, no warning.

Color me puzzled...
Comment 5 Simon Jones 2008-03-06 12:33:49 UTC 
This issue appeared to have been fixed about 5-10 minutes after I submitted my comment.
Comment 6 Olivier Thereaux 2008-04-17 12:01:38 UTC 
Closing this, as no test case could be provided. Feel free to reopen with details and test cases.