- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:35:37 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
- CC: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
[Michael Sperberg-McQueen:] | I think there are several reasons to expect DTDs might be unavailable | for some documents: [etc.] This is probably implicit in Michael's excellent summary, but allow me to add that DTD-less documents can also play a useful role at the intermediate stages of document editing and in the creation of structured documents from unstructured legacy data. The idea that SGML documents might be useful in the absence of a DTD can be a bit shocking at first but is a lot easier to swallow if you have spent some time working with products like DynaText that require a DTD only for entity declarations and the identification of EMPTY elements. After a while, one begins to consider the DTD a production quality assurance tool rather than something needed for document delivery. Jon
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