- From: Len Bullard <cbullard@HiWAAY.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 20:44:20 -0500
- To: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Paul Prescod wrote:
>
> An Odd Idea
> Could you summarize?
> ====================
> I think that we should only require DTDs when DTDs are required. Which means
> that the requirement for DTDs should not be in the XML standard but in the
> standards built on top of it ("XML applications").
>
> Paul Prescod
Actually, Paul, some systems have been doing this for some time.
Taking a simpler form of SGML and using it in "DTDless" ways
has been done even without requiring a hardwired browser a la HTML.
One of the real nice things about XML will be that with just a
nip and tuck here and there, some of these products will support
it and we will be able to field them at low/no cost given that
the decisions made in the next and final phases are well made.
len bullard
Received on Saturday, 28 September 1996 21:44:01 UTC