- From: Marc Salomon <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:40:02 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl wrote: >When I tested this myself, I found out I couldn't use any SGML constructs >other than DOCTYPES or comment elements in an HTML document when feeding >it to the Webtechs validator. Is there a reason for this? Why would an >SGML parser allow <!-- foobar --> but not <!ENTITY foobar ...>, both of >which are valid SGML constructs? <!ENTITY ... <!ATTRIBUTE ... <!ATTLIST ... Are all declarative markup in which you can delimit comments with -- ... --. Tags are document markup with different rules that RFC1866 covers. -marc --
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