Re: question and answer, style guide?

Dan Connolly (connolly@pixel.convex.com)
Tue, 03 Nov 92 11:48:23 CST


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."
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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 11:48:23 CST
From: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com>


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>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!

Dan

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