- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:53:10 GMT
- To: hsivonen@iki.fi
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> I thought you meant supporting entities even in the case where no > external-entity is referenced. The original sgml-open/oasis catalog format allows you to default a dtd given a top level element name. The catalogs shipped with opensp for example default the html4 dtd on any document that starts with <html> but no explict doctype. .... goes away and checks the xml catalog spec defaulting a dtd based on an element name isn't in the core xml-catalog support but it is defined by the extension in appendix E http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html#s.doctype which defines a doctype element to be used in the catalog as: <doctype name="html" uri="w3centities.ent"/> or <doctype name="html" uri="html4.dtd"/> the equivalent of the TR9401 catalog line DOCTYPE HTML HTML4.dtd which tells the parser to parse any document starting <html> as if it had <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "<the path to>HTML4.dtd"> Incidentally given suitable catalog and sgml declaration you can default a dtd for the html5 doctypoe <!DOCTYPE html> as well, so html5 documents can be parsed by sgml tools. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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