Re: Deviance from SGML (was Re: Version information)

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote:
> 
> If you remove the public identifier and/or DTD URL from the doctype, the 
> only semantics left is that the document element has to be "html". We 
> should consider removing it alltogether.

This was examined in detail; unfortunately it seems the shortest DOCTYPE 
that triggers standards mode in browsers today is the one proposed.


> How are we going to facilitate validation?

   http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator/html5/


> In what other ways is our new markup language going to deviate from 
> SGML?

There are various aspects of the syntax that deviate from SGML, most are 
inherited from legacy HTML implementations.

You may find some of the questions here useful:

   http://blog.whatwg.org/faq

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