- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 10:31:14 EST
- To: kimber@passage.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> I think you're missing Charles' point: that one goal is for XML documents > to *also* be SGML documents. To do that, they *must* have at least > "<!DOCTYPE typename SYSTEM>" at their start. They must also have a DTD to be valid SGML documents. > Note that any *existing* SGML processor can consider this to be valid by > defining its algorithm for resolving the omitted SYSTEM identifier to be > "parse the document Please name any existing SGML processor that works this way today. If you have to change the code, you're not talking about an existing parser. A modified parser could just as easily insert a DOCTYPE line. Lee
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