Lack of a DOCTYPE is invalid no matter what SGML based markup language
you are using.
User-agents WILL assume such things, but they only do this to overcome
invalid documents.
Simply because most user-agents are able to process this invalid
"tag-soup" does not mean it is any more valid.
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:34:49 +0100, Vincent Lefevre
<vincent+svn@vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2004-12-09 11:09:45 -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>
> > Noah Slater wrote:
> > >When browsing a svn repos though a user-agent the HTML documents
> > >served are NOT valid HTML and do not even include a DOCTYPE.
> >
> > Granted, they do not include a DOCTYPE, but the W3C validator says
> > that a directory listing generated by mod_dav_svn 1.1.1 is valid
> > HTML 4.01 Transitional except for the missing DOCTYPE.
> >
> > So.... what's this invaldity you refer to?
>
> If there's no DOCTYPE, one could also assume HTML 2.0, for instance.
> Is it also valid HTML 2.0?
>
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