Re: More syntax details in HTML 2.0?

Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)
Thu, 15 Jun 95 04:27:55 EDT

Terry Allen writes:
> Dave Morris writes:
> >FINALLY ... a small change to the HTML 2.0 draft ... it seems to
> me that a critical element missing is a formal specification of
> exactly where the DTD should be obtained from when it IS specified
> with an HTML document. This requires a network oriented solution
> such that an SGML user agent which wants to use the DTD to control
> parsing of the HTML document can find the thing without magic.
>
> At this stage, with only the one DTD, we could assume that it is
> generally known (and indeed hardwired into UAs). On the other hand,
> we still haven't resolved (ahem) how the DTD itself is to be made
> available (the copy in the RFC is broken by the formatting). Is this
> something W3O would like to take on?

There is always a (working) copy of the most recent DTD, SGML
Declaration and ISOlat1 file on ftp://www.ucc.ie/pub/html for this very
purpose, as I felt expecting users to use their editor to snip it out
of the spec was unproductive.

> I think the network solution would then be to supply a URL; when
> URNs are deployed we can figure out how the PI of the DTD can be
> made into a URN.

This looks like a prima facie case for <link rev="dtd" href="...">

///Peter