RE: Options for dealing with IDs

At 1:24 AM +1100 1/14/03, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>(Repost from Wednesday. This never made the archive, not sure why.)
>
>I think Chris misses out another option:
>
>?) Refactor XML so that there are four kinds of XML processors:  headlessWF,
>     WF, typed, and valid.  Deprecate WF in favour of WF and typedWF in all W3C
>     specifications.
>
>    - Headless WF must have no DOCTYPE.

And what happens if it does? How does a document indicate that it is 
headless? Simply by not having a DOCTYPE? Or is this a parser option? 
What happens if a headless parser encounters a DOCTYPE? This feels 
very rough to me.
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