- From: Marc Salomon <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:18:33 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
|I suggest that HMTL 3.2 not make the <!DOCTYPE tag a required tag, |but instead use a simpler syntax, such as <VERSION or <DOCTYPE, or |add an option to an existing tag. | |Reason: <! in HTML indicates a comment. <! does not indicate an HTML comment. Comments are usually indicated with the <!-- ... --> construct, among other ways. the <!DOCTYPE...> construct is the SGML (ISO-8879) standard way of expressing which external DTD is used to parse the document instance that follows. -marc --
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