> > I'm trying to use a DTD driven SGML parser to read HTML documents but I
> > am finding that the HTML standard has diverged significantly from the
> > SGML standard.
Please be more specific.
What version of the HTML DTD are you using ? Are the documents that you
are trying to read, stated as being compliant with that version of HTML?
I find that there are substantial variations in the degree to which different
browsers react to conventions they don't recognize... someone on this list
stated that handling all the common HTML buglike-features that could inhibit
SGML parsing had doubled or tripled the work of supporting HTML.
I don't doubt that there is a lot of crap out there pretending to be HTML,
I have written some of this myself under duress, but this is one of the
things that the standard is supposed to help rectify.
I should note that C++ templates were specified in 1989 but not supported
by the most popular compilers on the Windoze platforms until 1994... it is
often a very long haul before the big guys actually support an accredited
standard. If HTML becomes basically incompatible with SGML, however, it is
pretty clear that an SGML web could arise from its ashes fairly easily...
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