Re: HTML 4.0 and SGML ... RTFM? (was Re: XMP)

> It wasn't so much that browser makers didn't read the docs; they just 
> made HTML readers (buggy & incomplete ones at that), not SGML+
> HTML readers.   If the specs clearly noted the use of CDATA, INCLUDE, 
> IGNORE etc. there'd have been support added.

Umm. Possibly. The meeting here in Cork which explained all this to the
browser makers was very explicit though.

> Which comes to mind. These and other SGML markers should be
> _explicitly_ discussed in the HTML 4.0 specification.

No chance...too late for HTML. And for XML they are painfully aware of it.

///Peter

Received on Tuesday, 12 August 1997 12:00:11 UTC