Re: Doctypes, Declarations, and HTML Versions

Russell O'Connor laments

> But for some reason SGML is just to difficult to parse.  I don't see why
> James Clark can write an SGML parser and give it away, but large companies
> with hundreds of employees can't manage.

XML, unlike SGML, can be parsed without a DTD, which seems like the
major selling point of XHTML; XML browsers can be forward-compatible
without fetching a separate file to tell them whether they've just
passed a start tag or a stand-alone.
					John T. Whelan
					whelan@iname.com
					http://www.slack.net/~whelan/

Received on Monday, 4 October 1999 11:04:44 UTC