Re: Why DOCTYPE Declarations for XHTML?

"W. Eliot Kimber" wrote:

> You do have an alternative: a namespace use declaration with a meaning
> defined by the XHTML spec.

There are three DTDs for XHTML 1.0, but only one namespace:
developers protested the original three-namespace design, arguing that
it made recognition of what is fundamentally the same semantics
(an A element is an A element, whether strict, transitional,
or frameset) unnecessarily complex.  Therefore this option is foreclosed.
 
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Received on Tuesday, 18 January 2000 11:17:14 UTC