- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:43:44 -0500
Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
> The tutorials will just say "Use <!DOCTYPE html>".
>
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>.
Possibly this could be two-fold. E.g there could be both
<!DOCTYPE html>
and something like
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WhatWG//DTD XHTML 5.0//EN"
"/DTD/xhtml5.dtd">
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.
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.
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