- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:20:07 -0500
- To: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 10:47 AM 10/30/96, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: >Eve is surely right that claiming validity is probably more >useful and to the point than saying 'DTD is complete/incomplete'; >also right to suggest the default should be 'no validity claimed'. And since valid documents will require a doctype, we don't need any extra flag at all! We expect that it is valid if it has a doctype, and well-formed if it has no doctype (or maybe a "<!doctype foo SYSTEM [ some dumb subset ]>" doctype, if we can't eliminate the notion of partial DTDs). --- David >-Michael Sperberg-McQueen RE delenda est. I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________ http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/services_map_main.html
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