We always intended to do this, but it's out of our (composer team's) 
control -- we use whatever DTDs the layout engine supports, and right 
now that is somewhat limited. We do have a bug on supporting "strict" 
vs. "transitional" versions of the 4.0 DTD.
Charley

David Balch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I believe that a useful feature for composer would be being able to choose
> the doctype a page uses. I imagine it working as a dialog box with options
> for format, version, strict/quirks - with descriptions to guide the user to
> choosing the right format for them. After choosing (and maybe entering a
> page title) a new composer window would open with the minimal valid document
> for that format (and version).
> 
> This would help increase the number of well formed and validating pages on
> the net.
> 
> I understand that composer will only produce valid markup (as it works by
> DOM calls), so if there is a mechanism that checks user entered markup for
> well-formedness (or preferably validity) the quality of webpage markup would
> be increased (once moz gets widespread :)
> 
> I have thought out a way of doing this, but am not really a programmer. I
> will type up my ideas and post them, and have a look at XPFE when I get a
> chance, but comments would be apprieciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David Balch.
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