- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:08:19 -0400 (EDT)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Markku Savela wrote:
> The point is not in the difficulty.
>
> - You cannot parse general SGML based document, unless you have its
> DTD.
Firstly, under some SGML declarations, you can parse a document without a
declaration.
Secondly, why is knowing about the declaration so problematic? You have
to parse a document, why not parse its declaration while you are at it?
You can't parse a C program without first parsing it's included headers.
(Maybe this isn't the best analogy)
So, really, what is the problem with SGML?
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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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