Re: Prescriptive means??

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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:56:23 EDT
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From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
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Subject: Re: Prescriptive means?? 
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In message <199409102330.AA02916@char.vnet.net>, Stan Newton writes:
>
>I don't understand the use or meaning of the term Prescriptive, as in 
>HTML.Prescriptive.

It means "Dan sure wishes it were this way, but there are so
many documents that conflict with this, that it's not this way."

> If I have to author to 
>just one specification (HTML 2.0 Level 2, let's say), how do I choose 
>between Prescriptive ON or OFF?

Choose OFF (i.e. IGNORE).

Or choose ON and deal with the complaints. :-)

Seriously... if we adopt the simplification of the DTD that
Terry Allen has proposed, this issue will go away (in the OFF
direction.)

Dan