DTD is an old muddled standard

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Post #236,697 by ChrisR 11/30/05 11:12:19 PM Reply	DTD is an old muddled standard W3C never went back to try and fix it, settling instead on some other xml extensions to do the trickier bits. Of course, that's always been the rub against DTD => its got its own format that has no relation whatsoever with xml, being more an ancient tongue. Anyhow, it's not too terribly involved, as there's only a finite number of variations of things that can be accomplished.
Post #236,761 by tuberculosis 12/1/05 1:56:46 PM Reply	And to make it extra fun The html 4.01 transitional dtd at w3c - the one at the official url and all - has a syntax error, failed to terminate the first element and open a new comment brace. How sucky is that? "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #236,765 by ChrisR 12/1/05 2:39:55 PM Reply	Well, they did label it as Transitional... ...meaning Transitional from Bad to Worse. :-)

Anybody ever parsed a DTD? - (tuberculosis) - (12) - Nov. 30, 2005, 04:38:29 PM EST

Not in polite company. -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - Nov. 30, 2005, 04:48:47 PM EST

ICLRPD: Not in polite company. (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - Dec. 1, 2005, 12:14:48 AM EST

I've parsed RTF - (warmachine) - (2) - Nov. 30, 2005, 05:02:43 PM EST

ya gotta start somewhere :-) -NT - (SpiceWare) - Nov. 30, 2005, 05:05:19 PM EST

I'm sorry! - (Steve Lowe) - Dec. 1, 2005, 12:13:01 AM EST

Yup - (drewk) - (3) - Nov. 30, 2005, 05:13:10 PM EST

XML murders relational normalization thinking - (tablizer) - (2) - Nov. 30, 2005, 05:45:03 PM EST

Web pages aren't meant to be relational - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Nov. 30, 2005, 09:13:51 PM EST

and it shows -NT - (tablizer) - Dec. 3, 2005, 08:12:02 PM EST

DTD is an old muddled standard - (ChrisR) - (2) - Nov. 30, 2005, 11:12:19 PM EST

And to make it extra fun - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Dec. 1, 2005, 01:56:46 PM EST

Well, they did label it as Transitional... - (ChrisR) - Dec. 1, 2005, 02:39:55 PM EST

Better get a sitter for the kids and spend our waning hours dry-humping amongst a bunch of stalagtites.
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