-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jonas Sicking writes: > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote: >> My reading of these is that, if there is a SYSTEM identifier, many of these >> editors will attempt to fetch a DTD from that URI. Am I misunderstanding? > > What do these editors do with the fetched DTD? Given that there is no > DTD to describe what is valid HTML or XHTML, any attempt by software > to use a DTD will fail no matter what scheme we use. Not true. All the editors I use (XED, emacs, oXygen) will accept an external subset which e.g. consists entirely of entity declarations, see for instance http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/dtdTest.html, and do exactly what you would hope with it. ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLRyrjkjnJixAXWBoRApx2AJ9MuAI0mtObBT6wGUD7UsBMNJ96EgCfWWVv XmqY4yRI7sUqTzV/1bHDUs8= =FiVi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Friday, 8 January 2010 12:55:02 UTC
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