- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:13:39 -0400
- To: elm@arbortext.com
- CC: spec-prod@w3.org
>We didn't come to a definitive decision a couple of months ago about >"unifying" all the needs of the various DTD users. However, I become >convinced that for now, it's fine to have a single DTD that incorporates >the structures needed for XML-related W3C specs. Thus, Gavin, if you want >to send me your DOM markup declarations, I will incorporate them (as a >module, if you wish, though it would be easier to incorporate it "in the >flesh"). I will send the module presently, along with the (very slightly modified) version of the spec.dtd we use for the DOM. I've been careful to to alter much... >Is it a problem that the most recent DTD doesn't work with the XML spec? >Personally, I don't think so -- that's why I put the date in the FPI and >the filename. We just need to make sure that the old version continues to >be available. However, I don't intend to make backwards-incompatible >changes every week, or even every month. Yes. DTD's evolve over time, like everything else. I see no problem with an older document being incompatible with a newer DTD.
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