- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:24:23 -0400
- To: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>, kmc@harlequin.com
- Cc: marc@ckm.ucsf.edu, www-style@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
At 10:20 PM 8/9/96 GMT, Gavin Nicol wrote: >As a followup to Keith's excellent message, I should note that the >only reason you really need a DTD in a non-validating system is to >specify whether tags can be omitted or not. Another important use for DTDs is for establishing mappings with other element systems (i.e. HTML's ICADD attribute, TEI's TEIFORM attribute, etc.) I think it would be dangerous to build an information system that was neither based on a particular set of element names NOR had a mechanism for mapping to a standardized set of element names. That sounds like a recipe for chaos to me. Paul Prescod
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