Jonny,
Thanks for the question.
If a document with the w3c DTD is sent to a printer that shipped with
firmware written using the spec saying that conforming XHTML-Print documents
must have a DTD containing a URL to the xhtml-print.org DTD, then the it is
possible that the document wouldn't print correctly, even though the printer
is not validating.
In the extreme case, it is possible that the document wouldn't print at all,
since Section 2.3.1, item 1 says, "A printer MAY ignore or otherwise reject
a non-conforming XHTML-Print document."
I think we're all better off avoiding things that could make the user
unhappy! :-)
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonny Axelsson [mailto:jax@opera.no]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:05 PM
> To: w3c-html-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: XHTML-Print: change of url from xhtml-print.org
> to w3c.org breaks (PR#6869)
>
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:37:26 -0500, <jim.bigelow@hp.com> wrote:
>
>
> > The W3C Last Call Working Draft of XHTML-Print [1] changes
> the URL in
> > the DOCTYPE from
> > "http://www.xhtml-print.org/xhtml-print/xhtml-print10.dtd"
> > to "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-print10.dtd".
> >
> > This breaks compatibility with existing implementations. Can this
> > situation be handled by redirecting the xhtml-print.org url to the
> > w3.org url? If so, how is this done?
>
> Just for my curiosity: How does that break backwards
> compatibility? The
> old DTD will presumably remain at the www.xhtml-print.org
> location for at
> least as long as is needed (for the current implementations),
> while new or
> updated XHTML-Print implementations will use the new location. Or?
>
>
> --
> Jonny Axelsson,
> Web Standards,
> Opera Software
>
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