[TYPO3] XHTML Transitional Validation - XML prologue issue

Wed Dec 26 14:11:52 CET 2007

Hello Darko

You have doctypeSwitch = 1 that is why your <!DOCTYPE and <?xml are in 
reverse order.

http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/references/doc_core_tsref/4.1.0/view/7/3/ 

Darko Jr. Gonzalez wrote:
> Hey all
> 
> In-order for a TYPO3 page to validate against XHTML Transitional 1.0, the
> line: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> should appear first. W3.org validator tells me "XML Parsing Error: XML
> declaration allowed only at the start of the document.".
> I use config.doctypeSwitch = 1, thats for IE to work in compliant mode.
> One solution I know is that I can disable xml prologue, but I am not sure
> whats the correct way to add it as a first line?
> I read this:
> http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-english/2006-July/027837.html
> 
> And TSref tells me: "Note that the keywords also change the way TYPO3
> generates some of the XHTML tags to ensure valid XML. If you set doctype to
> a string, then you must also set config.xhtmlDoctype (see below). "
> 
> TYPO3 4.1.1 here. And I do not get the above, what I get in both Firefox and
> IE7 is this:
> <!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="utf-8"?>
> 
> I have this in TS setup:
> page.config{
>  doctype = xhtml_trans
>  doctypeSwitch = 1
>  index_enable = 1
>  xhtmlDoctype = xhtml_trans
>  removeDefaultJS = 1
> }
> 
> Can someone advise what I am doing wrong?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Darko