[Typo3-dev] Doctype - XML Prolog

Wed Feb 18 20:52:57 CET 2004

Gordon Mickel wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a small feature request:
> 
> It would be great if there was an option for leaving the xml prolog 
> (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) out of the document header.
> 
> Unfortunately the prolog causes problems with many browsers, the most 
> severe possibly being that it forces IE into it's quirky box model 
> rendering mode. You can find an exact list of the browser compliancy 
> issues here:
> 
> http://www.webstandards.org/learn/reference/prolog_problems.html
> 
> Luckily the xml prolog is only recommended and not required by the W3C 
> (see http://tantek.com/XHTML/Test/minimal.html#withorwithoutxmlprolog ) 
> so leaving it out still leaves our html pages fully specs-compliant.

Hi Gordon,

This fix is available in the new, yet to be released, version. I am a 
bit confused now myself. The first doesn't cause the quirks mode. Anyway 
by setting the config.doctypeSwitch you can reverse the lines. I hope 
this will help.

> <!DOCTYPE html
>>      PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>>      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1">
>>
>>the validator service doesn't validate this. it should be like this:
>>
>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
>><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Kasper wrote:
> I have fixed this now.
> 
> If people want this reversed version they can set
> "config.doctypeSwitch=1"

gRTz

ben
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