Re: XHTML

What a silly statement.

Not really once you understand the architecture of modules. With SGML your
browser needs a DTD to be able to interpret the document, or must have
inbuilt knowledge of a DTD.

With XML a namespace with a style sheet allows any browser to show your XML
module the way you want it, no SGMl working parties.

I suspect Russel that you belong to the old SGML/DSSSL mafia who can't
really believe that the old order has changed! <grin>

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: XHTML


> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Frank Boumphrey wrote:
>
> > SGML based HTML responds too slowly to change, with XML based XHTML it
will
> > be possible for interested parties to create their own subsets and add
them
> > to XHTML.
>
> What a silly statement.  It would be just as easy for HTML to evolve in
> SGML as it is in XML.  No one is forcing you to use one Document Type
> Declaration.  Arguably you can't really do that anyway.  That's why
> architecture forms exist.
>
> --
> Russell O'Connor                           roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
>        <http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
> ``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
> -- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
>

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