Request for change to XHTML Basic

Define a second conformance level, XHTML Minimal, which excludes forms.
This would in essence be a modern version of HTML 1.0, and as such
very useful for static documents that need a little markup, or for
documentation entries in other XML document types (which typically
just have a DOC element allowing #PCDATA only, or something of the sort).

XHTML Minimal would be a standards-compliant successor to my own IBTWSH
(Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Simple Hypertext) DTD, an XML DTD based on
HTML 4.0.  See http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/ibtwsh.dtd .

The cost is small: a new paragraph or two, a few new public ids, a trivially
different DTD.

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Received on Wednesday, 12 January 2000 16:55:27 UTC