- From: George Lund <george@lundboox.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 19:23:16 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
In article <Pine.WNT.4.10.9907070918120.-210899@zira.huji.ac.il>, Nir Dagan <nir@nirdagan.com> writes >Another cost that may be saved with XML is the ability to parse >(some) documents without a DTD. Retreiving a DTD across the >internet and parsing it constitutes considerable bandwith, >processing, and display time costs. Fair enough, but for common applications like HTML a parser (i.e. web browser) could be expected to have copies of the DTD to hand. So I still don't really see why we need HTML to be reformulated into XML. If a programmer can't understand SGML parsing then I would suggest going into programming web browsers was not a good career move. And once someone has put the SGML parser into a browser, it doesn't have to be done again and other programmers can concentrate on other aspects. -- George Lund
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