- From: Charles F. Goldfarb <Charles@SGMLsource.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 04:20:41 GMT
- To: "Eve L. Maler" <elm@arbortext.com>
- Cc: cbullard@HiWAAY.net, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:25:27 -0500, "Eve L. Maler" <elm@arbortext.com> wrote:
>I've been just watching the tennis match on this issue, and my allegiance
>switches with every mail message. :-) Nonetheless, one small comment...
I don't know which end of the court your leaning toward at the moment, but
here's another argument (in case conformance to 8879 isn't important enough :-).
Consistent rules are better than inconsistent ones. We can simply say:
A DOCTYPE declaration is always required. If there is a DTD, indicate that by
locating the external subset and/or putting the declarations in the internal
subset. If there is no DTD, indicate that by the word "SYSTEM" alone.
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