Where are the specs?

I may be overlooking the obvious....

[photon]

How can I find the specifications for various DOCTYPES from the home page of the W3C? I know that people have deep-linked to them in threads here, but I can't seem to find them going through the home page.

Thanks.

[Dreamquick]

All the markup specifications live off the link below - scroll down, click the one you want, scroll down to the table of contents and you'll find more specification information than you could shake a stick at (or possibly ever need).

[w3.org...]

Easiest way to find doctype info is to look at the "Document Type Definition" topics.

- Tony

[photon]

Thanks--I found that bit, but what I'm looking for specifically is the detailed info on tags and elements (more specifically, for XHTML 1.1), what's deprecated, does a float require a width, that sort of thing.

Am I making any sense?

[DrDoc]

The markup page linked to above takes you directly to those pages. However, whether that's useful or not depends on how fluent you are in reading DTDs.

[iamlost]

Try:

[w3.org ]

which lists each element of each module with links.

[DrDoc]

I think what photon is asking for is something more like this:
[w3.org...]

...but for each doctype.

[photon]

DrDoc--

That's very nearly it. Using your link I found this: [w3.org...] which is exactly the type of page I'm looking for, except for XHTML 1.1. Parsing that URL I found that the HTML 4.01 link can be reached through the "Technical Reports" link on the home page, though it's not immediately obvious (at least, not to me). :)

But I'm still not finding the equivalent XHTML 1.1 page. I keep running into XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML [w3.org], but it doesn't discuss tags at all.

I have a great talent for overlooking what's right in front of me, but I don't think I'm being too blatantly dense this time--I hope.

Side note: "XHTML" is trademarked?!?

[TheDoctor]

"XHTML" is trademarked?!?

Presumably to make sure no one else trademarks it. A useful precaution in this day and age.

[photon]

So can anyone point me in the direction DrDoc mentions in msg #6?

[photon]

*bump*

One last attempt. See above message.

[DrDoc]

I can't find anything, except this one: [w3.org...]
Which in turn takes me to: [w3.org...]

[tedster]

I've been looking too, and can't find anything better. I think the W3C could do a bit more in this area and help the web in general. It's a reasonable request.

[photon]

Okay, thanks for checking. I was assuming that I was overlooking something (I have a great talent for that). But if you two gurus can't find it, then I know it wasn't just me.

Thanks again.

[photon]

Just to show we're not alone in our frustrations with the w3 site:

Trying to find specific answers to specific questions about web standards in that heap of a web site is nearly a huge waste of time .

As for the W3C web site - it is a mess. I can’t find anything and I work there. My eyes bleed when I look at some of the pages.

[designbyfire.com...]

Warning: just part of a long rant