Re: Last Call: Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 to Proposed Standard

Roy Fielding (fielding@beach.w3.org)
Tue, 25 Jul 95 22:12:56 EDT

>The IESG has received a request from the HyperText Markup Language
>Working Group to consider "Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0"
><draft-ietf-html-spec-04.txt> for the status of Proposed Standard.

There is an important technical error in the above draft that should
be fixed before it becomes an RFC. This change was discussed and agreed
to on the WG several months ago, but was never made to the draft due
to an oversight.

In Section 5.7.3 (Anchor), the draft correctly states that

The REL attribute gives the relationship(s) described by
the hyperlink. The value is a whitespace separated list
of relationship names.

whereas, in Section 9.1 (HTML DTD), the draft incorrectly defines

<!--========= Link Markup ======================-->

<!ENTITY % linkType "NAME">

<!ENTITY % linkExtraAttributes
"REL %linkType #IMPLIED
REV %linkType #IMPLIED
URN CDATA #IMPLIED
TITLE CDATA #IMPLIED
METHODS NAMES #IMPLIED
">

The correct definition for this feature is:

<!--========= Link Markup ======================-->

<!ENTITY % linkExtraAttributes
"REL NAMES #IMPLIED
REV NAMES #IMPLIED
URN CDATA #IMPLIED
TITLE CDATA #IMPLIED
METHODS NAMES #IMPLIED
">

....Roy T. Fielding Department of ICS, University of California, Irvine USA
Visiting Scholar, MIT/LCS + World-Wide Web Consortium
(fielding@w3.org) (fielding@ics.uci.edu)