- From: John Boyer <JBoyer@PureEdge.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 08:47:16 -0700
- To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
Hi Elliotte, I'd appreciate it if you'd elaborate on this point a bit more. For my own case, I currently believe that DTD is used interchangeably as an abbreviation for both the document type definition grammar and the document type declaration. Note, however, that I take my understanding of what DTD means directly from its usage in the XML Recommendation [1], which incidentally seems to use DTD more often to refer to the DTDeclaration. Moreover, the same usage for DTD appears in XPath [2]. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath Thanks, John Boyer Senior Product Architect, Software Development Internet Commerce System (ICS) Team PureEdge Solutions Inc. Trusted Digital Relationships v: 250-708-8047 f: 250-708-8010 1-888-517-2675 http://www.PureEdge.com <http://www.pureedge.com/> -----Original Message----- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:51 AM To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org Subject: Erratum in section 1.1 of Canonical XML In section 1.1 it is written that: The XML declaration and document type declaration (DTD) are removed The problem is that "document type declaration" is not abbreviated "DTD". DTD stands for document type definition, which is not the same thing as a document type declaration, though they're closely related. I suggest simply deleting "(DTD) " -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Java I/O (O'Reilly & Associates, 1999) | | http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/books/javaio/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1565924851/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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