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Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:02 am**

My blog is not XHMTL transitional because of one error in line 4:

"Missing xmlns attribute for element html. The value should be: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... ose=1&st=1

Can I just replace the current value in index.tpl, which is http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
or would that cause all kinds of other problems? Do I have to change anything else in index.tpl, which currently looks like this:

{if $is_embedded != true}
{if $is_xhtml}
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
{else}
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
{/if}

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:23 am**

Josh wrote:Can I just replace the current value in index.tpl, which is http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
or would that cause all kinds of other problems? Do I have to change anything else in index.tpl, which currently looks like this:

Actually, the relevant part is right below the one you quoted

The part you quoted is the doctype declaration, and it's fine the way it is now. Your index.tpl probably has something like:

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<html>
<head>
[...]

below that. Editing it to look like this:

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
[...]

should do the trick.

YL

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:04 pm**

Thank you! It worked!

I appreciate your help!

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