Re: Using your own DTD (was Re: %flow and headers and address)
Murray Altheim (murray@spyglass.com)
Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:13:25 -0500
Message-Id: <v02140b00ae760243a345@[192.168.22.85]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:13:25 -0500
To: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU>
From: murray@spyglass.com (Murray Altheim)
Subject: Re: Using your own DTD (was Re: %flow and headers and address)
Cc: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>, www-html@w3.org
Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU> writes:
[...]
> I was assuming that Peter would offer his composite DTD for
>public discussion by all interested persons, and would amend it
>toward some consensus of what would be most useful to as many of
>those interested persons as possible, as well as making his own
>judgements based on his expertise in SGML.
[...]
> A lot of what will be "restored" in it was designed to
>degrade gracefully for clients which do not support it. But
>using it is presently problematic with respect to validation
>if you also use markup developed since, and not in, the (expired)
>HTML 3.0 DTD.
If you guys decide to go off and rebuild the world outside of W3C, you
should at least consider what you're doing as a/the possible proposal you'd
submit to the IETF in reopening an HTML working group. Then the product of
what you're working on would actually become (theoretically, at least) a
recognized standard. Hey, and you might get participation by a lot of
people willing to provide valuable feedback (such as Earl).
Murray
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