Hi.

Having some fun with CGI.pm html4 methods.

using CGI I do 

use CGI qw/:html4 -no_xhtml/;

print $q->(-dtd=>'//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN');

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1. Even though I import 4.01 in the dtd of the cgi object I still need to state -no_xhtml after importing CGI otherwise the xmlns namespace appears underneath the html4 strict dtd.

2. After excluding the xmlns namespace I cannot see how to append the html4 strict dtd url on to the dtd so that it reads as required that is 

<"//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

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If I try to print it by appending to the dtd like so 

print $q->(-dtd=>"'//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/htm
+l4/strict.dtd'");

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then cgi.pm turns the dtd into the html4 transitional dtd. If I attempt to manually print the dtd prior to using cgi to construct the header the served html fails.

As I need to put this up onto a live server what I need to know is whether the address part of the dtd is important or not. And if it is is there a workaround (or method i'm missing), I kind of always assumed it was as important as the dtd declartion that precedes it.

In reply to cgi.pm -import strict html4 address into html4 strict dtd header by Don Coyote

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