- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:14:50 -0800
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org, w3c-html-wg@w3.org
In the XHTML draft, section "4. Differences with HTML 4.0", there is no mention of element types removed from the DTDs. In particular, the following element types there were declared in the HTML 4.0 Transitional DTD are not declared in the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD: dir isindex menu strike I realize all these elements are not in the strict HTML 4.0 DTD, but people will be comparing the HTML 4.0 Transitional with the XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and it seems wise to list removed elements under "differences" in the spec if in fact these element type declarations are removed. At this moment, I cannot access the Web and the TIDY program, so I cannot check how it might handle these four element types when converting an HTML 4.0 Transitional document into an XHTML 1.0 Transitional one, but especially if it doesn't automatically handle these elements, a comment about them in this document seems quite important. Since this DTD is just supposed to be an XML-ized version of HTML 4.0 as witnessed by the comment at the top of the DTD: This is the same as HTML 4.0 Transitional except for changes due to the differences between XML and SGML. I would actually prefer to leave these element type declarations in the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD. That is, my preferred solution to this issue is to put declarations for these elements back into the XHTML 1.0 Trans. DTD. paul [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-html-in-xml-19990304#diffs
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