- From: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 19:39:20 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor wrote: > 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"> > ]> > [etc] The book was closed on this a long time ago. See <URL:http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=259842602> <URL:http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=259906443> > This is perfectly in line with SGML, and I really don't know why it > hasn't been adopted. Because Netploder doesn't support it. The web is what Netploder supports. The politically correct way to refer to this is to talk in terms of "constrained solutions". Arjun
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