- From: Nir Dagan <nir@nirdagan.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:58:55 +0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Kepping out of the disscussion whether we need the transitional DTD anymore, there were both transitional and a frameset DTDs because: <!-- The content model for HTML documents depends on whether the HEAD is followed by a FRAMESET or BODY element. The widespread omission of the BODY start tag makes it impractical to define the content model without the use of a marked section. --> from http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/loosedtd.html The problem with <!ELEMENT HTML O O (HEAD, (BODY|FRAMESET))> is that this makes it invalid to ommit the BODY start tag in non-frameset documents. In XHTML this is not an issue, since all start and end tags are required, so the transitional and frameset can be made into one DTD. regards, Nir Dagan http://www.nirdagan.com mailto:nir@nirdagan.com tel:+972-2-588-3143 "There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory." -- A. Einstein
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