- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:53:51 GMT
- To: www-math@w3.org
me> --If you want a markup to propagate HTML formatted email then the modular me> nature of XHTML will allow you to build a DTD for that usage, and me> documents valid for that DTD will work on browsers.-- Daniel Hiester replies > My question is, and maybe this is more something for the WG to consider, is > how would you attach a DTD to an XHTML-formatted email file? as discussed at some length in a parallel thread on this mailing list every XHTML document specifies the DTD in a way that in principle allows a system to retrieve the DTD. Although for the case at issue, where no special plugin or extension is required to render the markup, a browser could just as well act as now and not use the DTD at all. > clients, and then we'll be in a mess! MS Outlook users > wouldn't be able to send xhtml email to Netscape Communicator users, and so > on. That's my fear at least... it may not be rational. Well that is exctly the situation now if you send email as html. There are a lot more email clients than those two, and there is no reason to assume they read HTML. However attatching DTD (or Schema) to the Markup does not solve that problem, that only allows the document to be validated. You need some kind of MIME mechanism to specify what systems are required to actually handle the document. How to specify the MIME type for a document that includes lots of features from lots of namespaces, requiring a browser architecture that allows diferent plugin functionality to render different parts of the document is of course a good question. But there are other people on this list a lot more qualified than me to answer that. David
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