Re: Ending DTD proliferation at the W3C

On 2014/01/14 18:49, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On 13/01/2014 23:28 , Alex Russell wrote:
>> Has schema-language deprecation ever been done before at the W3C?
>
> There is no precedent that I'm aware of.
>
>> Was there a sunset on SGML?
>
> W3C never handled SGML,

Wrong. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/#minitoc and in particular e.g. 
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/sgmldecl.html.

> and if there were any SGML DTDs in use when XML
> came up I think they were just replaced.

XHTML1 indeed replaced the HTML4 SGML DTD with an XML DTD.

The way I would put it is that SGML DTD(s) just died a quiet death, 
without the need for any tombstones or such.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:11:47 UTC