Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/07/05 13:04

windandwaves wrote:

> I like w3 but I never know how to find things.

DTDs pre-date the W3C. Like any well-behaved standards body (*), the
W3C are careful not to duplicate anyone else's existing standards. If
you do this, you end up with wrong-headed contradictions (like the ISO
HTML imposition of ordered <h*>)

So DTDs are an old SGML feature. Reading their definition is going to
need a trip into that particular dinosaur-filled tarpit. There's almost
certainly a book by Charles Goldfarb that you can't afford. Perhaps one
of the local (or c.i.w.a.h) SGML gurus can point us at a handy web
guide instead - I'd certainly appreciate one.

(*) I said _like_. I know they're not 8-)

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