[ZPT] DOCTYPES in Page Templates

[Geir Bækholt · Plone Solutions]

On  Tue, 11 May 2004 00:33:28 -0700 GMT 
Jamie Heilman asked the ZPT mailinglist about the following:
  
> Alexander Limi wrote:
>> (notice the total lack of spaces to conform with the spec, which states
>> that the doctype has to be on the first line, without leading spaces)

> Which spec?  Please cite.  Given that you may include a XML declaration
> in a valid document I'm inclined to say your assertion that doctype
> has to be first is either bogus or out of date.

Correct, Jamie, it does not have to be on the first line according to
the spec.

according to w3c - XHTML1.0 , which is what Plone attempts to conform to,
"There must be a DOCTYPE declaration in the document prior to the root
element"

- But - Browser redering-engine implementations (Both IE and Moz IIRC)
that switch between "backwards-compatible quirks-mode"-rendering and
"try-to-match-the-css-spec-but-still-fail"-rendering based on the Doctype
will not notice it if it is not on the first line.

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