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diff --git a/htdocs/docs/help.html b/htdocs/docs/help.html index 1db1a25..19f2050 100755 --- a/htdocs/docs/help.html +++ b/htdocs/docs/help.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: help.html,v 1.13 2003-02-24 23:33:19 ville Exp $" ---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2003-02-24 23:33:19 $" +<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: help.html,v 1.14 2003-05-24 20:32:46 link Exp $" +--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2003-05-24 20:32:46 $" --><!--#set var="title" value="Help for The W3C Markup Validation Service" --><!--#set var="relroot" value="../" --><!--#include virtual="../header.html" --> @@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ <li>Miscellaneous (Very) Frequently Asked Questions <ul> <li> + <a href="#faq-doctype">No DOCTYPE Declaration Found!</a> + </li> + <li> + <a href="#faq-charset">The validator is <q>not able to extract + a character encoding</q></a> + </li> + <li> <a href="#faq-ampersand">The validator complains about "&" in my URLs!</a> </li> <li> @@ -196,6 +203,55 @@ <div> <h2 id="very-faq">Miscellaneous (Very) Frequently Asked Questions</h2> +<h3 id="faq-doctype">No DOCTYPE Declaration Found!</h3> + <p> + A DOCTYPE Declaration is mandatory for most current markup languages + and without one it is impossible to reliably validate a document. + </p> + + <p> + One should place a DOCTYPE declaration as the very first thing in an + HTML document. For example, for a typical <a + href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/">XHTML 1.0</a> document: + </p> + <pre> + <!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> + + <title>Title</title> + </head> + + <body> + <!-- ... body of document ... --> + </body> + + </html> + </pre> + <p> + For XML documents, you may also wish to include an "XML Declaration" + even before the DOCTYPE Declaration, but this is not well supported + in older browsers. More information about this can be found in the + <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/">XHTML 1.0</a> Recommendation. + </p> + <p> + The W3C QA Activity maintains a <a + href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html">List of + Valid Doctypes</a> that you can choose from, and the <acronym + title="Web Design Group">WDG</acronym> maintains a document on + "<a href="http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html">Choosing + a DOCTYPE</a>". + </p> +<h3 id="faq-charset">The validator is <q>not able to extract +a character encoding</q></h3> + +<p>An HTML document should be served along with its character encoding.</p> +<p>WDG has some good documentation on +<a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html">using +character encodings</a> that will help you fix your document or the way it is served +by adding the proper character encoding information.</p> + <h3 id="faq-ampersand">The validator complains about "&" in my URLs!</h3> <p>Most probably, you should read the <a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp">ampersand section</a> |