On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:28:19 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" said:
I don't think this works. People will be using older DTDs (I
know I
have a few), and support for those shouldn't "just go away".
And of course, there will be people who actually (gasp, shock) have their
own DTDs created for some custom project (I know pretty soon I'm going to
have to start investigating the DTD that goes along with the recent RFC
draft for XML encoding of security intrusion alert data....
Having said that, it would indeed be nice if it was possible to just tell
XEmacs that all the DTDs live "over there" at some point(s) in the file
system. That way we can get out of the DTD business altogether, and let
people find the ones they need - let's face it, if they need a HTML 4.01
or XHTML 1.0 DTD, they probably alredy have access to a copy (as whatever
is *receiving* the data already needs the DTD). At least I'm *hoping*
so - that's the case - the only two cases I can think of for demanding
a HTML 4.01 DTD (for example) are "the consumer of the data already has
the DTD" and "intellectual masturbation".
Of course, I'm sitting in Dulles airport between flights as I write this,
so maybe I'm pulling a Vixie(*) here...
/Valdis
(*) "Never release software while stuck in an airport" - Vixie's comment
after a .0 release of BIND ramped up to .4 or so within a week. ;)