Re: Why DOCTYPE Declarations for XHTML?

At 03:08 PM 1/14/00 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>Ann Navarro wrote:
>
>> Why would an entire language be deprecated?
>
>Typically, new versions of a spec implicitly
>deprecate old ones:  a new C compiler that
>didn't do ANSI C would be thought rather odd.
>
>XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 don't seem to have that
>relationship: one is "monolithic" and the other is
>"modular".


Doing so would be contrary to practice at least in regard to HTML. 

It's still perfectly valid to write documents to HTML 2.0, 3.2, and all
other official versions. Using a newer one might be better, but there's no
statement of deprecation on entire versions. 

Ann
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Received on Friday, 14 January 2000 15:05:43 UTC