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Posted by Jim Higson on 10/07/05 13:52
windandwaves wrote:
> Mark Parnell wrote:
>> In our last episode, Barbara de Zoete <b_de_zoete@hotmail.com>
>> pronounced to alt.html:
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>>> <!ELEMENT HTML O O (%html.content;) -- document root element -->
>>
>> And for those who can't read a DTD...go and learn. ;-)
>>
>> Just kidding (though it is worthwhile) - the O O after the element
>> name means that both the opening and closing tags are optional.
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>
> hmmm, that starts to make sense now. I like w3 but I never know how to
> find
> things. There are so many different standards and options, etc... How do
> you tackle this and where can I learn the DTD codes?
Btw, might be easier to learn XML DTDs than straight SGML ones. Since XML is
really just a simpler subset of SGML there'd be less to learn (in this case
the O O wouldn't be there because there are no optional open/close tags)
With this you understand the DTDs for XHTML, RSS, SVG etc...
Jim
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