Document Type Declaration CSS IE6

Tue Aug 2 00:45:21 EDT 2005

Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Mapserver so perhaps I'm missing something simple.
Anyway, I have an MS4W type installation on a windows xp development server.
I've had no trouble getting GIS data to display coherently from a wep page
like this:

<img src="[img]" />

In order to then format the web page using CSS style declarations (I've
placed these between the <head> tags) I have to use a Document Type
Declaration (DTD).  This stuff:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd>

The problem starts when Mapserver adds its own header at the beginning of
the template it submits to the browser.  I'm talking about this:

<!-- MapServer version 4.2.1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT INPUT=POSTGIS
INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE -->

Well, as it turns out Internet Explorer 6 goes into "Quirks Mode" as soon as
you add anything in front of the DTD (Mozilla based browsers have no
problems with this).  As a result all that beautiful CSS formating goes
right out the window for IE.

I am positive that this is the case because I pulled the source from the
browser, manually removed the Mapserver header and resubmitted that file
back to IE, sure enough everything worked perfectly.

So, does anyone know of a way in which I can tell Mapserver not to place its
header at the begining of the HTML template when it submits it to the browser?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated,
Andrew