Kaula Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 For the past couple months I've been using ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>title</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="somethinghere.css" media="screen" /> </head> <body> </body> </html> and it's always validated fine . Now if i use xhtml 1.1 doctype, the lang="en" xml:lang="en" will fail validation. Saying Error Line 4 column 48: there is no attribute "lang". Does anyone know a way around that? Quote
TCH-JimE Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Hello, Taken from the W3C website Here ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" > <head> <title>Virtual Library</title> </head> <body> <p>Moved to <a href="http://vlib.org/">vlib.org</a>.</p> </body> </html> Remember, that sometimes validators are not perfect and do mess up on the odd occasion. Also intresting to note by googling further, I quote XHTML 1.1 - This document type is essentially a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict using XHTML Modules. While XHTML 1.1 looks very similar to XHTML 1.0 Strict, it is designed to serve as the basis for future extended XHTML Family document types. Its modular design makes it easier to add other XHTML modules as needed and to create and include, in one document, other markup languages.I then went on to find that lang="en" is required for the XHTML 1.0 strict Doctype but not for the XHTML 1.1 Doctype but after many other searches, this should validate too! ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" > <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> JimE Quote
Kaula Posted March 29, 2006 Author Posted March 29, 2006 So we just have to ><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> leave out the first lang="en" everything works fine. Wonder if that has any effect on how things are displayed. I wouldnt think so. Quote
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