- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 20:34:27 +0000 (GMT)
- To: cmsmcq@uic.edu (C. M. Sperberg-McQueen)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen suggested replacing:
> > <insert
> > data="http://www.mysite.com/path/file.html"
> > >
> > </insert>
with:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN" [
> <!ENTITY myfile SYSTEM "http://www.mysite.com/path/file.html" SUBDOC>
> ]>
> &myfile;
A few problems with this:
1) General practice on the Web is to not ship the DTD around with
the document instance. Thus, it is tricky to add your own entities like this.
2) It is not flexible enough. Consider how this example might be coded
using the proposed syntax:
<insert
classid="java:Fishy.class"
code="http://site/applets/Fishy.class"
width="4in"
height="2.7in"
border="12pt"
type="application/x-java-bytecode">
<param name="species" value="guppy">
<param name="current" value="strong">
</insert>
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