- From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 07:21:43 PDT
- To: sdm7g@virginia.edu, Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
What do you want a browser to do when it encounters an attribute not specified in the DTD, e.g., <CODE LANG=C>? And what do you mean by >I would think that it would be desirable to be able to consider HTML documents as a subset of other SGML markedup text ? Note that the unknown attributes are not eliminated in transmission; they're there for the client to act upon if it has some instructions for dealing with them. If your client had that capacity, you could use unknown atts to enrich the semantics of the existing HTML markup (<EM role=vegetable>) for such things as searching, without impairing the ability of other clients to render the text. Regards, -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) Editor, Digital Media Group O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472
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