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…rs can comfortably classify as lower priority to aid transition.

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<li><a href=#obsolete-elements><span class=secno>10.1 </span>Obsolete elements</a>
<ol>
<li><a href=#the-body-element-0><span class=secno>10.1.1 </span>The <code>body</code> element</a></li>
<li><a href=#the-applet-element><span class=secno>10.1.2 </span>The <code>applet</code> element</a></ol></ol></li>
<li><a href=#the-applet-element><span class=secno>10.1.2 </span>The <code>applet</code> element</a></ol></li>
<li><a href=#conformance-checkers-0><span class=secno>10.2 </span>Conformance checkers</a></ol></li>
<li><a href=#no><span class=secno>11 </span>Things that you can't do with this specification because
they are better handled using other technologies that are further
described herein</a>
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<p>If the DOCTYPE token's <code title="">name</code> is not an
<a href=#ascii-case-insensitive>ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">HTML</code>", or if the token's public identifier is
neither missing nor equal to the string
"<code>XSLT-compat</code>", or if the token's system identifier
is not missing, then there is a <a href=#parse-error>parse
error</a>. Conformance checkers may, instead of reporting this
error, switch to a conformance checking mode for another language
(e.g. based on the DOCTYPE token a conformance checker could
recognize that the document is an HTML4-era document, and defer to
an HTML4 conformance checker.)</p>
"<code>XSLT-compat</code>", or if the token's system identifier is
not missing, then there is a <a href=#parse-error>parse error</a> (this is the
<dfn id=doctype-parse-error>DOCTYPE parse error</dfn>). Conformance checkers may, instead
of reporting this error, switch to a conformance checking mode for
another language (e.g. based on the DOCTYPE token a conformance
checker could recognize that the document is an HTML4-era
document, and defer to an HTML4 conformance checker.)</p>

<p>Append a <code>DocumentType</code> node to the
<code>Document</code> node, with the <code title="">name</code>
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attribute must return an <code><a href=#htmlcollection-0>HTMLCollection</a></code> rooted at the
<code>Document</code> node, whose filter matches only
<code><a href=#the-applet-element>applet</a></code> elements.</p>




<h3 id=conformance-checkers-0><span class=secno>10.2 </span>Conformance checkers</h3>

<p>To ease the transition from HTML4 Transitional documents to the
language defined in <em>this</em> specification, conformance
checkers are encouraged to categorise errors that represent usage of
old obsolete features that generally have no effect (as defined
below) into a separate part of their report, to allow authors to
distinguish between likely mistakes and mere vestigial markup.</p>

<p>The following errors may be categorised as described above:</p>

<ul><li>

<p>The <a href=#doctype-parse-error>DOCTYPE parse error</a>, if the DOCTYPE token's
<code title="">name</code> is an <a href=#ascii-case-insensitive>ASCII
case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">HTML</code>", and either:</p>

<ul><li>the token's public identifier is the
<a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;HTML&nbsp;4.0//EN</code>" and the
token's system identifier is either missing or the
<a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd</code>", or</li>

<li>the token's public identifier is the
<a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;HTML&nbsp;4.01//EN</code>" and the
token's system identifier is either missing or the
<a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd</code>", or</li>

<li>the token's public identifier is the
<a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;XHTML&nbsp;1.0&nbsp;Strict//EN</code>"
and the token's system identifier is either missing or the
<a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd</code>",
or</li>

<li>the token's public identifier is the
<a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;XHTML&nbsp;1.1//EN</code>"
and the token's system identifier is either missing or the
<a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd</code>".</li>

</ul><!-- only things that trigger no-quirks mode and were valid in
some other spec are allowed in this list --></li>

<li><p>The presence of a <code title=attr-img-border>border</code> attribute on an
<code><a href=#the-img-element>img</a></code> element if its value is the string "<code title="">0</code>".</li>

<li><p>The presence of a <code title=attr-script-language></code>
attribute on a <code><a href=#script>script</a></code> element if its value is an
<a href=#ascii-case-insensitive>ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">JavaScript</code>".</li>

<h2 id=no><span class=secno>11 </span>Things that you can't do with this specification because
</ul><h2 id=no><span class=secno>11 </span>Things that you can't do with this specification because
they are better handled using other technologies that are further
described herein</h2>

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<span>ASCII case-insensitive</span> match for the string "<code
title="">HTML</code>", or if the token's public identifier is
neither missing nor equal to the string
"<code>XSLT-compat</code>", or if the token's system identifier
is not missing, then there is a <span>parse
error</span>. Conformance checkers may, instead of reporting this
error, switch to a conformance checking mode for another language
(e.g. based on the DOCTYPE token a conformance checker could
recognize that the document is an HTML4-era document, and defer to
an HTML4 conformance checker.)</p>
"<code>XSLT-compat</code>", or if the token's system identifier is
not missing, then there is a <span>parse error</span> (this is the
<dfn>DOCTYPE parse error</dfn>). Conformance checkers may, instead
of reporting this error, switch to a conformance checking mode for
another language (e.g. based on the DOCTYPE token a conformance
checker could recognize that the document is an HTML4-era
document, and defer to an HTML4 conformance checker.)</p>

<p>Append a <code>DocumentType</code> node to the
<code>Document</code> node, with the <code title="">name</code>
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attribute must return an <code>HTMLCollection</code> rooted at the
<code>Document</code> node, whose filter matches only
<code>applet</code> elements.</p>




<h3>Conformance checkers</h3>

<p>To ease the transition from HTML4 Transitional documents to the
language defined in <em>this</em> specification, conformance
checkers are encouraged to categorise errors that represent usage of
old obsolete features that generally have no effect (as defined
below) into a separate part of their report, to allow authors to
distinguish between likely mistakes and mere vestigial markup.</p>

<p>The following errors may be categorised as described above:</p>

<ul>

<li>

<p>The <span>DOCTYPE parse error</span>, if the DOCTYPE token's
<code title="">name</code> is an <span>ASCII
case-insensitive</span> match for the string "<code
title="">HTML</code>", and either:</p>

<ul>

<li>the token's public identifier is the
<span>case-sensitive</span> string "<code
title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;HTML&nbsp;4.0//EN</code>" and the
token's system identifier is either missing or the
<span>case-sensitive</span> string "<code
title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd</code>", or</li>

<li>the token's public identifier is the
<span>case-sensitive</span> string "<code
title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;HTML&nbsp;4.01//EN</code>" and the
token's system identifier is either missing or the
<span>case-sensitive</span> string "<code
title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd</code>", or</li>

<li>the token's public identifier is the
<span>case-sensitive</span> string "<code
title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;XHTML&nbsp;1.0&nbsp;Strict//EN</code>"
and the token's system identifier is either missing or the
<span>case-sensitive</span> string "<code
title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd</code>",
or</li>

<li>the token's public identifier is the
<span>case-sensitive</span> string "<code
title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;XHTML&nbsp;1.1//EN</code>"
and the token's system identifier is either missing or the
<span>case-sensitive</span> string "<code
title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd</code>".</li>

</ul>

<!-- only things that trigger no-quirks mode and were valid in
some other spec are allowed in this list -->

</li>

<li><p>The presence of a <code
title="attr-img-border">border</code> attribute on an
<code>img</code> element if its value is the string "<code
title="">0</code>".</p></li>

<li><p>The presence of a <code title="attr-script-language"></code>
attribute on a <code>script</code> element if its value is an
<span>ASCII case-insensitive</span> match for the string "<code
title="">JavaScript</code>".</p></li>

</ul>



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