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[Texi2html-bug] w3c-validator warns about wrong doctype declaration

From: Andreas Lochmann
Subject: [Texi2html-bug] w3c-validator warns about wrong doctype declaration
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:29:36 +0100
User-agent: IceDove 1.5.0.14eol (X11/20090105) 
Hi,

this is only a minor bug, but surely as easy to correct;
pardon me if this is already known.

I use texi2html 1.76 (Debian Etch). Documents created with texi2html
passed http://validator.w3.org without problems until recently
(thanks for such a good work!).
But now the validator gives a lonely single warning:

  Mismatch between Public and System identifiers in the DOCTYPE
  declaration

  This document uses an inconsistent DOCTYPE declaration. The Public
  Identifier -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN declares the HTML
  4.01 Transitional document type, but the associated System Identifier
  http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd does not match this document
  type.

  The recommended System Identifier for HTML 4.01 Transitional is
  http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd.

  The safest way to use a correct DOCTYPE declaration is to copy and
  paste one from the recommended list and avoid editing that part of
  your markup by hand.

Real-Life-Example:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nongnu.org%2Fenigma%2Fmanual%2Fenigma.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

So I'd suggest to change the default doctype of texi2html from

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd";>

to the recommended:

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>

same for "frameset.dtd". I don't know why w3 changed this at all
  - Anway, I hope this report helps.

Best regards,
Andreas Lochmann
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