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 At 9:31 AM -0700 9/29/01, Tim Bray wrote: >What I find works well is to show four slides. The first is >a sample of HTML, with all the usual HTML problems, unclosed >tags, the <IMG> element with no end-tag, unquoted attribute >values, no enclosing tag pair for the whole doc. > >The second slide makes it into well-formed XML, logically >equivalent but different-looking and obviously much easier >for a programmer to handle. > Sounds like a good plan. However, I'd add a slide 2.5 right about here that shifted from XHTML to a custom vocabulary relevant to the domain in question. >The third has a teeny little internal-subset DTD that makes >the thing valid - if you keep yourself to <html>, <p>, <a>, and ><img> it's not too hard. > >The fourth has a pointer to an external DTD, presumably >xhtml.dtd or some such, there's no need to go into the DTD. > -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ 
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