According to the HTML Standard FAQ:
“What is the DOCTYPE for modern HTML documents?
In text/html documents:
<!DOCTYPE html>
In documents delivered with an XML media type: no DOCTYPE is required
and its use is generally unnecessary. However, you may use one if you
want (see the following question). Note that the above is well-formed
XML.”
Source: [1]
Gitweb uses an XHTML 1.0 DOCTYPE:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
While that DOCTYPE is still valid [2], it has several disadvantages:
1. It’s misleading. If an XML parser uses the DTD at the given link,
then the entities and ⋅ won’t get declared. Instead, the
parser has to use a DTD from the HTML Standard that has nothing to do
with XHTML 1.0 [2].
2. It’s obsolete. XHTML 1.0 was last revised in 2002 and was superseded in
2018 [3].
3. It’s unreliable. Gitweb uses and ⋅ but lets an external file
define them. “[…U]using entity references for characters in XML documents
is unsafe if they are defined in an external file (except for <, >,
&, ", and ').” [4]
[1]: <https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/main/FAQ.md#what-is-the-doctype-for-modern-html-documents>
[2]: <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html#parsing-xhtml-documents>
[3]: <https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#xhtml>
[4]: <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html#writing-xhtml-documents>
Signed-off-by: Jason Yundt <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
my $mod_perl_version = $ENV{'MOD_PERL'} ? " $ENV{'MOD_PERL'}" : '';
print <<EOF;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE html [
+ <!ENTITY nbsp " ">
+ <!ENTITY sdot "⋅">
+]>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">
<!-- git web interface version $version, (C) 2005-2006, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers\@vrfy.org>, Christian Gierke -->
<!-- git core binaries version $git_version -->
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