- From: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 10:52:53 -0500 (EST)
- To: murray@spyglass.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
murray@spyglass.com (Murray Altheim) wrote: >[...] An SGML markup declaration >begins with a "markup declaration open" (MDO), which in the reference >concrete (ie., default) syntax is defined as: > > <! > >Following immediately after this (no whitespace) is the declaration type. >There are 13 types of markup declarations in SGML, but only one is allowed >in the document instance: the comment declaration. Perhaps this is a problem of me not yet being clear on the precise meanings of SMGL terms, but isn't it now two for HTML: <!-- and: <!DOCTYPE Also, wouldn't a real SGML parser handle comments in a DOCTYPE declaration, but they are presently excluded, or at perhaps "disrecommended", there for HTML? Fote ========================================================================= Foteos Macrides Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU 222 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, MA 01545 =========================================================================
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