- From: Earl Hood <ehood@imagine.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 15:39:28 CDT
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
- Cc: Earl Hood <ehood@imagine.convex.com>, www-html@www0.cern.ch, harward@imagine.convex.com
> > > >What is the reasoning for allowing header elements inside a BLOCKQUOTE > >element? > > There's no compelling technical argument, but the result of my musings > on BLOCKQUOTE is that it should have the same content model as BODY. > That way, anything somebody can put in an HTML BODY, you can quote. > It seems to make sense to me. Do you have a specific objection? No, sounds reasonable. I'm just affraid that Web browsers might not make the distinction. I.e. Should a H1 in a BODY be formatted the same as in a BLOCKQUOTE? > ****** When you submit comments, please cite the address/version/date/name > ****** of the document you're commenting on. Doh! $Id: html.dtd,v 1.16 1994/06/13 20:55:50 connolly Exp $ I'll get the later version. > >It would be nice that there existed some sort of "diff" between the > >newer versions of the HTML DTD from the older versions. > > Have you looked at: > file:/u/connolly/develop/web/html-spec/ChangeLog --^^^^ Got a http URL? > http://www.hal.com/%7Econnolly/html-spec > > if you follow the links from there, you should always get up-to-date > stuff. Thanks. [list deleted] > > <textarea rows> > > Yup, that stuff is all new since the HTML 1.3 draft. Neat list too. > Maybe I should grab these perl ditties and use them myself! (Of course > I've got my own perl ditties, but you seem to have a lot more time to > spend enhancing them than I do.) I used a program whose output is different than the list I gave you, and just re-editted it. I think I'm getting the motivation to write a DTD diff program since I already have done the harder work. But as for time, it is getting lesser and lesser each day. > > <link name> > > Good catch. I never gave this much thought, though I'm not sad to see > it go. I do have a test suite -- on the order of 100 documents -- that > I run every time I make a change to the DTD. In those 100 documents, > nobody used <link name>. More test documents are always welcome. I never used it, and don't care that it vanishes. But somebody might. > Are you volunteering to write this "diff" document? I have nearly run > out of cycles for editing the HTML document. I am still the editor > through the publication as an RFC, but I am delegating everything > now. Other folks are doing the remaining edits (and producing new > postscript and text versions from HTML), and I am coordinating them. I thought of it. If I can get a decent DTD diff program written (I should be able to modify dtd2html to generate a different kind of diff output that it already does), I'd be willing to generate such a document. All I need is access to older versions of the DTD. Thanks for the informative response, --ewh
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