[ tidy-Bugs-1207443 ] XHTML output doesn't conform to the DTD

Bugs item #1207443, was opened at 2005-05-24 10:46
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Category: Pretty Printer
Group: Current - all platforms
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 6
Submitted By: eminence (eminence_tech)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: XHTML output doesn't conform to the DTD

Initial Comment:
Tidy does not generate XHML that conforms to the DTD. 
A test case with several form elements has been attached.

According to the DTD that is referenced by the XHTML
generated by tidy,
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd),
the type in the form elements should be in lower case.

I.e.

<input type="TEXT" align="left" />
<input type="RADIO" />
<input type="CHECKBOX" />

should actually be

<input type="text" align="left" />
<input type="radio" />
<input type="checkbox" />

to conform to the DTD.

The full list of input types is included below from the
DTD.

<!ENTITY % InputType
  "(text | password | checkbox |
    radio | submit | reset |
    file | hidden | image | button)"
   >

Version of tidy use: CVS 2005-05-24:
tidy -v: HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 released on 1 May 2005

Tidy was invoked as follows with the test file that has
been included:
tidy -ascii -asxhtml form_test.htm




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>Comment By: eminence (eminence_tech)
Date: 2005-08-17 12:08

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> Under HTML 4, the interpretation of these values was
case-insensitive,
> so a value of TEXT was equivalent to a value of text.
Under XML, the
> interpretation of these values is case-sensitive, and in
XHTML 1 all of
> these values are defined in lower-case.

Based on this information, couldn't we just convert these
values to lower case then? That way XHTML will be happy, and
HTML 4 is case-insensitive so it won't mind.

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Comment By: Björn Höhrmann (hoehrmann)
Date: 2005-08-16 23:29

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This is a duplicate of some other "bug" (probably a feature 
request). Not sure which one though.

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Comment By: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai (asmodai)
Date: 2005-08-16 23:03

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This is correct, see:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ - Section 4.11 - Attributes
with pre-defined value sets

HTML 4 and XHTML both have some attributes that have
pre-defined and limited sets of values (e.g. the type
attribute of the input element). In SGML and XML, these are
called enumerated attributes. Under HTML 4, the
interpretation of these values was case-insensitive, so a
value of TEXT was equivalent to a value of text. Under XML,
the interpretation of these values is case-sensitive, and in
XHTML 1 all of these values are defined in lower-case.

This bug is still present in the version of 2005-07-22.

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