- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 16 Nov 1996 03:34:43 +0000 (GMT)
- To: walter@natural-innovations.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
>No problem. You'd have to be pretty clueless to have problems with it. What's complicated is all the "-//xxx/" stuff inside the DOCTYPE tag. Mere mortals cannot guess what is valid in there, and thus the safest things is to leave it out completely. The suggested thing to put there has changed so many times over the years and months that it is impossible for anyone to know for sure what to put. Who assigns that stuff anyway? Does IANA decide? W3C/ERB? You? Me? Captain Kangaroo? Who knows? Not I. It's not complicated. Read the docs on HTML Pro. <!doctype html publix "+//Silmaril//DTD HTML Pro blah blah//EN"> maps to a file called /usr/local/lib/sgml/Silmaril/DTD/HTML_Pro_blah_blah or its equivalent under a DOS-based file system, c:\usr\local\lib\sgml\Silmaril\DTD\HTML_Pro_blah_blah (well, Win95: I don't know how DOS truncates this), or on a Mac, ::usr:local:lib:sgml:Silmaril:DTD:HTML Pro blah blah The only problem arises with crud like you see in some of the kludged-up DTDs for Netscape, where the Public Owner (company name) is mangled. ///Peter
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