Message-Id: <9211031748.AA17059@pixel.convex.com> To: Edward Vielmetti <emv@garnet.msen.com> Cc: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>, Subject: Re: question and answer, style guide? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Nov 92 10:37:06 EST." <Pine.3.05.9211031003.A20803-b100000@garnet.msen.com> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 11:48:23 CST From: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com> --8< >the real answer might be "edit in a real SGML environment, then edit the >tags so they work with HTML browsers". in that case what I'm really >asking for is design for a frequently asked questions DTD, and I'm >(currently) sorely lacking the tools needed to experiment my way to an answer. I suggest the ICA toolset for experimenting your way to an answer. That's how I came up with the HTML dtd -- or that's where I started. You can point-and-click your way to a rough grammar, and then tell it to write an SGML DTD. Then you can look at the DTD and get an idea of what's going on. Then you hack a little, and voila! 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