>>>> "Valdis" == Valdis Kletnieks
<Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu> writes:
Valdis> At least I'm *hoping* so - that's the case - the only two
Valdis> cases I can think of for demanding a HTML 4.01 DTD (for
Valdis> example) are "the consumer of the data already has the
Valdis> DTD" and "intellectual masturbation".
What makes you think that Netscape or Exploiter provide a DTD in
anything but machine code form?
That's why we need HTML DTDs---there are too many hard coded apps out
there, we cannot depend on the user to have any HTML DTD explicitly
available.
Also, now that DTDs are relatively carefully versioned, there's little
harm in providing what we have on hand (but we should be conservative
about the catalogs/symlinks).
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