- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:40:12 -0400 (EDT)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
As mentioned before, inclusion has been discussed many times on this list.
See <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1998Apr/0032.html> for
the beginning of one discussion.
My views are that
SSI doesn't reduce server load when it could.
OBJECT can't include a document nicely, because that doucment whould be a
complete HTML document with its own title and style-sheet etc. The
included document isn't part of the parse-tree, so it will mess up DOM and
DSSSL processing.
SGML already allows for external entites. The specs only need to be
changed to allow the following construct:
<!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>Example</TITLE>
&header;
<!-- main body here -->
&footer;
This is perfectly in line with SGML, and I really don't know why it hasn't
been adopted.
Personally I write my HTML in any valid way that I want (using shorttags
to my hearts content) and then run
spam -p -x -x -momittag -mshorttag -mms
on my file.
<http://www.jclark.com/sp/spam.htm>
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
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