Re: DOCTYPE

Michael J. Suzio (msuzio@ford.com)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 13:13:58 -0500

W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
> That's all there is to it. The idea that DOCTYPE declarations
> tell you something useful is one of the top five Big Lies of SGML.

Can you enlighten us on the other four? ;-)

> If anyone would like to see real code that does architecture-based
> processing, I would be happy to provide it in any of the languages in
> which I've done it (Perl, Rexx, DSSSL, ACL, VisualBasic--
> sorry, no Java, only because I haven't had a need to do
> Java programming yet--note the preponderance of
> *interpreted* languages in this list :-).

I think posting pointers to Perl and DSSSL examples would be helpful
to many of us. I suppose VB and REX are interesting, too (just not
to me <g>).

So, is this the proposed namespace alternative (architectural
forms?). I've been trying to get up to speed on namespace
issues, just haven't gotten that far yet.

-- 
Michael J. Suzio
Web Technical Standards, WWW & Internet Applications
(313) 24-88120
msuzio@eccms1.dearborn.ford.com / msuzio@ford.com


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