- From: Christian Taube <taube@isa.de>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:11:24 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: jtauber@library.uwa.edu.au (James K. Tauber)
- Cc: hees@lhc.msm.cern.ch, www-html@w3.org
James Tauber wrote: ]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [ ] <!ENTITY heading SYSTEM "http://www.uwa.edu.au/heading.incl"> ]]> ]<HTML> ]<HEAD> ]<TITLE>Test Page</TITLE> ]</HEAD> ]<BODY> ]&heading; ]</BODY> ]</HTML> ] ]Once you start getting web browsers with SGML parsers and proper entity ]management this will be possible. Yes, this would be a nice thing to see. But it will be a very significant departure from a lot of current implementations. As an aside: I recently edited a hand-crafted HTML document in Navigator Gold. Before, its head looked like this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN//"> <!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.9 1996/05/30 11:59:23 taube Exp $ --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>My Title</TITLE> <BASE HREF="http://somesite.de/index.html"> <LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:somebody@somesite.de"> </HEAD> After, it looked like this: <html> <head> <title>My Title</title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#E6E8FA" link="#0000EE" vlink="#551A8B" alink="#FF0000"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/2.01Gold (Win32)"> <center><p><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN//"><!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.9 1996/05/30 11:59:23 taube Exp $ --><BASE HREF="http://somesite.de/index.html"><LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:somebody@somesite.de"></p></center> Hmmm, yummy. Standards can be so very nice to ya, Wilber ... :-) ]Infact, what would be nice is a web browser with an architecture engine ]that could serve up documents in any DTD conforming to HTML as a ]meta-DTD. In the meantime, use SoftQuad's Panorama for SGML via the Web. There are some very nice SGML resources at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/WebSGML.html Panorama's free edition should live somewhere in http://www.sq.com Disclaimer: I have no stake at all in SoftQuad, or any other relation to them, other than that I like Panorama :-). Christian. -- Christian Taube -- <A HREF="http://www.isa.de/~taube">taube@isa.de</A> PGP public key available. Any opinions expressed are mine! Thought for today: Time is hard, like a tractor beam with computers, channels and impatience.
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