- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:07:58 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Rob wrote:
> It wasn't so much that browser makers didn't read the docs; they just
> made HTML readers (buggy & incomplete ones at that), not SGML+
> HTML readers. If the specs clearly noted the use of CDATA, INCLUDE,
> IGNORE etc. there'd have been support added.
>
> Which comes to mind. These and other SGML markers should be
> _explicitly_ discussed in the HTML 4.0 specification.
I think it would be great to define your own enitites in the DOCTYPE.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" [
<!ENTITY foo CDATA "<TITLE>Self Printing HTML</TITLE>
<BODY><PRE>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" [
<!ENTITY foo CDATA "&foo;">]>
&foo;</PRE>">]>
<TITLE>Self Printing HTML</TITLE>
<BODY><PRE>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" [
<!ENTITY foo CDATA "&foo;">]>
&foo;</PRE>
:-)
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
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