Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 00:55:36 MET DST From: timbl (Tim Berners-Lee) Message-Id: <9207142255.AA02153@ nxoc01.cern.ch > To: connolly@pixel.convex.com, timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch Subject: Re: rethinking the HTML DTD. Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch Dan, You had a DTD which was almost HTML as it now is. I can't remeber the syntax but it needs to have something along the lines of nonanchor = H! | H2 | text | DL ... anchor = <A> nonanchors </A> document_bit = anchor | nonanchor to get the restriction of not nesting anchors, not nesting DLs, but being able to put anchors within DLs OR DLs within anchors. If you could write that in DTD and mail it ten (when I come back from vacation I or someone else) will put it into the web for people to refer to. If we get complains from some SGML parsers that its not right, we can fix it. But we should have something there as an attempt to document current practice. I don't think the Daveport group (who are thinking about DTDs for documentation seriously) are in on this list, and I'm not in on theirs. I would like to get some UDI (The meeting att he IETf yesterday decided to call them URLs -- Uniform Resource Locators -- minutes are in http://info.cern.ch/timbl/Public/USTrip1992/IETF-24/UDI_BOF_Minutes.html) (but I digress) of the davenport group's working documents. I'll go to their meeting in Sebastopol 16th-18th August if I can and see what they are doing... Tim