- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:01:22 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Elliotte Harold wrote: > > What are those of us who wish to use XML tools on our documents supposed > to use? We will need a real DTD at some point, to declare the entities > if nothing else. We will not be able to use <!DOCTYPE html>. XML allows you to use, e.g.: <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "my.dtd"> This is an XML feature, though, unrelated to XHTML5. > I know some browser-centric folks here just hate DTDs and schemas of any > kind; but we will need them, even if the browsers don't. We will create > and use them, even if there's no normative DTD in the spec. That's entirely allowed by XML, indeed. > One thing that's struck me in working with the spec over the last few > days is just how hard it is to follow the various content models, and > how much simpler most of them would be to read if they were described in > a RELAX NG schema or a DTD. Having spoken to people who have actually used RELAX NG to describe them, I'm not sure that it really would be easier. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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