- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:05:58 +0000 ()
- To: Andrew n marshall <amarshal@usc.edu>
- cc: W3C HTML List <www-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Andrew n marshall wrote: > I've been going through the new HTML-in-XML working draft. Now I > have a question: > > Can someone explain to me the need or purpose of the extra.inline > and extra.block entities? I read the note ate the top of > http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml/dtd.html, but I guess I don't > know when/why you would add new entities. Is it for later versions > of HTML (post v5)? Or is it something used so that tags from other > DTDs can be laid out correctly in an HTML flow? Can someone > provide an example? The entities are there to make it easy to glue the DTD pieces together to function as a fully formed document type definition. Regrettably DTD's are far from ideal for this, and I am looking forward eagerly to see whether W3C's work on XML schema languages will provide a better match to the needs for modularity. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett tel/fax: +44 122 578 2984 (or 2521) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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