'Re: \n before <html'

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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: \n before <html
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-07-27 8:58:51
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Stephan Goetter wrote:
> > White-space and SGML comments are ignored by HTML. The first TAG has to be
> > <HTML...> but I guess that before this tag an unlimited amount of white-space
> > and SGML-comment may occur.
> 
> But \n isn't a white-space, or am I wrong here. (after "<doctype..." is a \n)
> For example, when kmimemagic wouldn't know "<doctype..." because of html 1.x only,
> the code would compare "<doctype...\n<html>" with "<html>" and fail.

\n is white-space.
 
> But are standards so important for file-type-detection ?

Yes. If a HTML file starts with "GIF89a" we will not recognize it.

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