- From: Jim Wise <jw250@columbia.edu>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 03:34:46 -0500 (EST)
- To: Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
- cc: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, WWW HTML List <www-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Carl Morris wrote: > Lets get one thing right here right now. SGML is not required for > HTML... I do acknowledge that it is ideal to insure than an SGML This is simply incorrect. Have you _read_ the HTML spec? It says rpepeatedly ``HTML is an application of SGML''. If you parse HTML, you _are_ parsing SGML. If you cannot parse SGML correctly, you cannot parse SGML correctly. > browser as is any other. Requiring <!DOCTYPE> is also "requiring" SGML Perhaps. At any rate, the standard _does_ require SGML. > processing unless you will agree that to an HTML parser, <!> is a > comment, or otherwise worthless. To an author, its a completely <!> means _nothing_ in standard HTML. It _is_ worthless. > declarations, just like I don't want to be forced to TITLE everything I > write (I always hated that in School, now the rest of the world seems If you don't want to put a title on everything you write, that's fine. But don't then claim that what you are writing is HTML. -- Jim Wise System Administrator GSAPP, Columbia University jim@santafe.arch.columbia.edu http://www.arch.columbia.edu/~jim * Finger for PGP public key *
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