- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@hal.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 10:23:03 -0500
- To: murray@sco.com
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
In message <9406100917.aa11448@dali.scocan.sco.COM>, Murray Maloney writes: >I apoligize that I don't know who posted this, but >in response to a thread which has appeared in this mail list, >> >> > <RENDER TAG=NEW_TAG EQUIV=STRONG> >> > >> >And now use <NEW_TAG> all over the place. What happens when I want to >> >Hi, > >The idea of being able to reinvent the markup language >on a document by document by document basis is an >interesting and somewhat appealing one. > >However, it will make it impossible to completely >regularize the language as an SGML DTD. That is, >it would be impossible to parse a document that >added new tags in this manner. Not so... the following might very well be a conforming SGML document: <!DOCTYPE HTML [ <!ENTITY html-3.0 PUBLIC "-//W3O//DTD WWW HTML 3.0//EN"> <!ENTITY % cextra "QUARK|LEPTON"> %html-3.0; ]> <html> <head><title>extra tags</title></head> <body> <render tag=QUARK equiv="I"> <render tag=LEPTON equiv="B"> <p>Consider quarks <quark>x</quark> and <quark>y</quark>... </body> </html>
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