- From: Russell O'Connor <roconnor@Math.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:58:46 -0800 (PST)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [To: www-html@w3.org] On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Etan Wexler wrote: > The compatibility that exists in XHTML is with common user agents, not > with HTML. Yes, It seems I was mistaken about the intent of Appendix C. > But, anyway, HTML has never been an SGML application in any practical > way. HTML was and is a fast and loose language, defined in part by > Requests For Comments and Recommendations, but also by the > functionaility of popular user agents. The fact that HTML > documents can be written to be conforming SGML documents does not > make HTML SGML. Perhaps, but HTML 4.01 is certainly SGML. What makes HTML 4.01 SGML are the words in section 4.2 HTML 4 is an SGML application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language SGML (defined in [ISO8879]). As I'm sure you know, these are randomly chosen words. It is exactly the wording used to indicates that HTML is an SGML application. - -- Russell O'Connor <http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/> ``[Law enforcement officials] suggested that the activists were stopped not because their names are on the list, but because their names resemble those of suspected criminals or terrorists.'' -- SFGate.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (SunOS) iQCVAwUBPh6LSk0+aO5oRkNZAQLnVwP/ZDG6A9DA5AYhtLnVvTIjSh5ZuB9ZDslr iV3O085h9C8GueHesUthXVFYp+SPDcT7qxNX9Ri4I7V9qKBk1MMPY8rc4Xi37thj cDDA017UGcLrxJnkFjr06a9JTY3cRAetziTGmvEYgZA7quSzZliTUqQrIRFPIozj u3pcrIcz7CA= =ueK5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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