- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:56:44 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
I'd like to add that my motivation for wanting an HTML Architecture comes
from a desire to allow authors to create their own entities for client-side
includes. For example, I want the following to be legal HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd" [
<!ENTITY header SYSTEM "http://www.example.com/header.inc">
<!ENTITY footer SYSTEM "http://www.example.com/footer.inc">
]>
<HTML lang=en-CA>
<TITLE>Sample</TITLE>
&header;
<!-- main body here -->
&footer;
I'm sure this has been discussed before.
The advantages of client-side includes over server-side includes include
better caching, less load on the server, and less network traffic.
An HTML architecture is a more general solution to a more general problem,
but I'd at least like to see this ability for client-side includes in the
next version of HTML.
--
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"
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