- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 22:48:05 -0400
- To: dceccald@elaine.crcg.edu (Danyel Ceccaldi)
- Cc: lynn@pharmdec.wustl.edu, www-talk@www10.w3.org
In message <9507051725.AA20547@hornbill.crcg.edu>, Danyel Ceccaldi writes: > >Another point is, that HTML comes from SGML, >and some SGML-rules were broken. One SGML-rule is, that tags >must not be longer than 8 letters (broken by <BLOCKQUOTE>). >Perhaps you can propose a tag, which does not exceed 8 letters. Please cite your source of information. The SGML rules were not "broken." It's just that HTML does not use all of the quanitities and capacities of the reference concrete syntax of SGML. NAMELEN is 72 in HTML. See: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC13 |A name consists of a letter followed by letters, digits, periods, or |hyphens. The length of a name is limited to 72 characters by the |`NAMELEN' parameter in the SGML delcaration for HTML, section |SGML Declaration for HTML. Folks, the signal-to-noise ratio of www-talk is really going down hill. If you have an question: please research it to the best of your abilities elsewhere before mailing here (hint: use your browser's "help" or "net search" facilities). If you have an answer: PLEASE cite your sources so that folks can independently verify your information. Dan
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