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Bug 7102 - Permitted obsolete doctype compare "HTML"
Summary: Permitted obsolete doctype compare "HTML"
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2009-07-14 11:50 UTC by Henri Sivonen
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:28 UTC (History)
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Description Henri Sivonen 2009-07-14 11:50:32 UTC 
Instead of 'The DOCTYPE token's name is an ASCII case-insensitive match for the string "HTML"' the spec should say 'The DOCTYPE token's name is a case-sensitive match for the string "html"'.

The tokenizer lower-cases the DOCTYPE token's name.