Html Sgml confusion

[ekremucar]

i have tried to match an html file mime type detected sgml
both starts with 'doctype' but html file continues with 'html'
maybe it is required to order mathchers

[aurelien-baudet]

Same issue for me. Is there a way to make it work anyway ?

[arimus]

Currently, the following matchers already exist with a higher precedence than the sgml matcher:

<match>
    <mimetype>text/html</mimetype>
    <extension>html</extension>
    <description>HTML document text</description>
    <test offset="0" type="string" comparator="=">&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML</test>
</match>
<match>
    <mimetype>text/html</mimetype>
    <extension>html</extension>
    <description>HTML document text</description>
    <test offset="0" type="string" comparator="=">&lt;!doctype html</test>
</match>

Does your document have something other than exactly the following at position 0 in the file? Note that the default matchers are exact matches and don't ignore whitespace, etc.

[aurelien-baudet]

I found why the detection is not working. The file case is important and the file starts with:

[arimus]

You can, just not with the string matcher. You'll need to use the regex matcher type. See the magic.xml for a couple examples. Sorry for the bad paste above. There are existing matchers for this, which are actually regex already, they just aren't using the /i flag.

<match>
    <mimetype>text/html</mimetype>
    <extension>html</extension>
    <description>HTML Document</description>
    <test offset="0" type="regex" comparator="=">/^\s*&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC/</test>
</match>
<match>
    <mimetype>text/html</mimetype>
    <extension>html</extension>
    <description>HTML Document</description>
    <test offset="0" type="regex" comparator="=">/^\s*&lt;html&gt;/</test>
</match>