Re: HTML3 body tag

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Tue, 7 Mar 95 11:36:34 EST

> <!ENTITY foobar SYSTEM "http://foo.com/bar.html.inc">
>
> &foobar;

Is preferrable to

> <DL> ....
> <DT> foobar
> <DD> <INCLUDE ID=foobar NAME="foobar" HREF="http://foo.com/bar.html.inc"
> REL="subdoc" REV="glossary"
> TITLE="The definition of foobar is...">

because the parser can validate the former, but not the latter.

>As they are SGML NAMES, aren't they case insensitve?

Not necessarily! The RFC sets

NAMECASE GENERAL YES
ENTITY NO

(page 477 in Golfarb), but the RFC does not equal SGML!