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Re: genx - doctype?

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: genx - doctype?
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:49:53 -0500
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Tim Bray scripsit:

> So this is a chance for people to say "I'd like to use genx for XXX, 
> but I can't withou a DOCTYPE because of YYY."  -Tim

To reiterate a principal use case, generating valid XHTML 1.x
requires, I say requires, the ability to generate a simple DOCTYPE
declaration.

BTW, I'll take the opportunity to say that internal subsets shouldn't
ever be supported, at least not in the form of passing in a string;
guaranteeing that this string is well-formed is way too expensive.
Generating an internal subset would require a full DTD-generating
API, which is hardly necessary these days, IMAO.

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