Re: Why DOCTYPE Declarations for XHTML?

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Murray Altheim wrote:

> Simple answer: there's not a conformant XML parser alive today that does
> anything other than use DOCTYPE to declare what document type definition
> a document conforms to,

Wait, isn't nsgmls a XML parse.  Doesn't it use the DOCTYPE to declare
what document type *declaration* (ie grammer) the document conforms to?
It doesn't infer any document type definition information from this?

This would seem to be a contradiction to your claim.  Not that current
incarations of XML parsers would be relevant anyways.

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Received on Monday, 17 January 2000 21:41:15 UTC