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Re: Root element specified by DTD ?

From: "Andy Dingley <dingbat@----------.--->" <dingbat@----------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 6/2/2006 6:07:00 AM


Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> Andy Dingley <dingbat@c...> wrote:

> > Is this fragment a valid HTML document ?...
> > <!DOCTYPE div PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
> > <div>
> >     <p>Foo</p>
> > </div>
>
> Yes, it's valid.  The validator would have told you that.

I don't know _what_ the validator is telling me.  As an example (from
Tidy) it gives a warning
"inserting missing 'title' element"

Now to my mind, this suggests that it's seen as a valid serialisation
of a HTML document, but that after parsing it the HTML-specific tool
has implied the <html>, <head>, <title> and presumably <body> elements.
 Now that's quite a different behaviour to "These documents are valid
as fragments based on any root element".

I also don't have a generic SGML parser to hand, just HTML ones. My
real interest here is in the XML or SGML cases, not anything
HTML-specific that is being implied by the context or HTTP headers.


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