- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:53:55 +0000
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, "julian.reschke@gmx.de" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
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Jonas Sicking writes:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:
>> My reading of these is that, if there is a SYSTEM identifier, many of these
>> editors will attempt to fetch a DTD from that URI. Am I misunderstanding?
>
> What do these editors do with the fetched DTD? Given that there is no
> DTD to describe what is valid HTML or XHTML, any attempt by software
> to use a DTD will fail no matter what scheme we use.
Not true. All the editors I use (XED, emacs, oXygen) will accept an
external subset which e.g. consists entirely of entity declarations,
see for instance http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/dtdTest.html, and do
exactly what you would hope with it.
ht
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