Stuff about the OBJECT tag.

I'm a little confused about using the OBJECT element to include one HTML
document in another.  The included HTML document is a full HTML document
complete with DOCTYPE and HEAD elements and TITLE elements right?  This is
unlike a server side includes where the included file is cut and paste
into the including docuement.

On a similar note this example is given in the specs:
<OBJECT title="The Earth as seen from space"
           classid="http://www.observer.mars/TheEarth.py">
 <OBJECT data="TheEarth.mpeg" type="application/mpeg">
  <OBJECT src="TheEarth.gif">
   The <STRONG>Earth</STRONG> as seen from space.
  </OBJECT>
 </OBJECT>
</OBJECT>

There is an error. ``src'' is not an OBJECT attribute.

Also, Content for the OBJECT element is defined as follows:
<!ELEMENT OBJECT - - (PARAM | %block)*>

Wouldn't <!ELEMENT OBJECT - - (PARAM*, %block*)> be better?
I find it a little odd that the content of OBJECT is ignored unless the
object can't be rendered UNLESS it can be rendered and it has parmeters.

-- 
Russell O'Connor                           roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
    <URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"

Received on Friday, 1 August 1997 23:14:10 UTC