- 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.
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Time is hard, like a tractor beam with computers, channels and impatience.
Received on Thursday, 13 June 1996 05:11:32 UTC