Multiple doctypes/HTML Validation

RT Users
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So, for some reason, the HTML produced by RT doesn’t seem to validate.
When I looked at the source, I found two things:

<!DOCTYPE html 
  PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
RT at a glance

(etc)

My HTML checker currently reports 51 errors, 4 warnings.

I’m using this one: http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/

First, any idea why that doctype line’s showing up twice?

Secondly, if the HTML doesn’t validate, why bother setting strict, and not
transitional?

This RT install goes way back and has been upgraded several times before I
took it over, so that could be part of it.

-Dan

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So, for some reason, the HTML produced by RT doesn’t seem to validate.
When I looked at the source, I found two things:

<!DOCTYPE html 
 PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
RT at a glance

First, any idea why that doctype line’s showing up twice?

http://issues.bestpractical.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=13810&user=guest&pass=guest

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Secondly, if the HTML doesn’t validate, why bother setting strict,
and not transitional?

I suspect that “best intentions” and “the real world” come into it.
When I get a moment, I’ll probably relax our doctype to HTML5. I’m so
happy that XHTML has been thoroughly discredited :wink:

-Jesse

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