- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:34:57 +0000
On 15 Dec 2007, at 12:52, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > 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. ISO 8879:1989 states that SGML public text owner identifier registration (i.e., those that start with a + instead of the unregistered -) is defined in ISO 9070, which I don't have a copy of. I can, however, quote the summary from ISO 8879:1989: "These [registered owner identifiers] include standards body identifiers for national or industry standards organisations (similar to the ISO owner identifier), and unique codes that may have been assigned to organisations by other standards". -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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