[Typo3-dev] Doctype - XML Prolog

Wed Feb 18 21:57:20 CET 2004

Gordon Mickel wrote:

> Hi Ben
> 
> now I'm a bit confused too :)
> 
> I checked out the newest CVS version today and noticed the new 
> config.doctypeSwitch setting (and the title tag for images, yay!!).
> 
> It was my understanding, that the xml line has to be completely left out 
> of the document to solve said problems.
> 
> Is there any point in just switching the DOCTYPE Declaration and XML 
> prolog around? Most web developers just leave it out completely. I could 
> be wrong here but I think the XML specs specify that the Prolog is 
> optional, but if it's in there that it should be the before all other 
> elements...

Hi Gordon,

Yes optional it is. It solved my problem when ie6 started behaving like 
ie5. You know the box model hassle thing. This got ie6 out of quirks 
mode for me:

<!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"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

gRtz

ben
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