* David Woolley wrote:
>(Valid HTML 2 documents (which don't need <!DOCTYPE....) can start with
><TITLE>; this can also be the first tag agfter the <!DOCTYPE directive
>for HTML 4.01 documents.)

I don't know what a "Valid HTML 2 document" is, but documents conforming
to RFC 1866 (HTML 2.0) must start with a document type declaration.