- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 15:49:46 -0400 (EDT)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
> : The document type declaration names the document type definition (DTD)
> : in use for the document (see [ISO8879]).
>
> Unfortunately, this statement - as an assertion about naming - has *no*
> basis in ISO8879. Moreover, in the relatively obvious semantic intent, it
> is flat out wrong.
This is exteremly correct.
> Of course, this leaves open the real issue, which is how to convey the
> *semantic* import of a version specification. Unofrtunately, ISO8879
> doesn't provide a way. All we know is that the doctype declaration
> definitely does not qualify.
Last year I suggested durring the ``Future of HTML'' discussions, that the
W3C adopt an HTML Architecture. This would actually provide semantics for
HTML in a standard way. Instead the W3C has choosen to develop XHTML as
an XML implementation. I actally haven't looked at the XHTML specs yet,
so I don't know whether it resolves these issues or not.
> <URL:http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=325927738>
I also want to provide this reference. Everyone should read it.
Also available at
<http://www.syntext.com/topics/sgml/kimber1.html>
and most specifically as
<news:34E9CBC9.401B6BB0@isogen.com>
--
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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