- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:52:06 +0000
Krzysztof ?elechowski wrote: > Dnia 14-12-2007, Pt o godzinie 19:47 +0100, Maik Merten pisze: >> Krzysztof ?elechowski schrieb: >>> Remember the "-" in DOCTYPE HTML? >> Feel free to be more specific. > > That prefix means that HTML DOCTYPE is not issued by an officially > recognised standards body. If W3C were such an organisation, we would > have a "+" there instead. I haven't bought the SGML specification to double-check, so feel free to quote from it if it says otherwise. But from everything else I've read it simply means W3C has not registered a Public Text Owner Identifier with ISO. See also: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535242.aspx http://www.is-thought.co.uk/book/sgml-6.htm#FPI http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer-doctype-declaration.html http://xml.coverpages.org/gca-pubidrls.html http://xml.coverpages.org/fpiResolverFlynn.html Any old organization can register as Public Text Owners, not just officially recognized standards body. The - has nothing to do to do with W3C being (or not being) recognized as a standards body. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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