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[Dave Pawson:] | One line of my original message read something like | 'What was the original intent' of DOCTYPE? | [...] | Come on gurus, what was it all about in the first place? | It wasn't that long ago that you have forgotten ... was it! Well, back before 1986, anyway. That's when the SGML standard was published. "Doctype" means "type of document." Novels, telephone books, poems, plays, bills of lading, and patient care records are types of documents. They have different structures and need differently named tags if the tags are going to make sense to a human user or an intelligent indexer. You must start reading some of the easily available materials on this subject before asking others for information. You can start with the XML page at W3C (go to http://www.w3.org and click on "XML", then follow all the pointers from that page). This reading will include the XML FAQ and Robin Cover's magnificent SGML web site. Then you can hit a couple of the good beginning books on SGML. I happen to be at an SGML conference in Barcelona at the moment; I will take a look at currently available introductory SGML books that might work well for an XML newbie and reply back here with a list (probably a very short one). Some people are working on putting up a general-purpose public XML mailing list that should become available in the next few weeks. Until then, I suggest that you post inquiries of the variety "What is a doctype?" to the newsgroup comp.text.sgml and not to this xml-dev list, which is for the use of technical experts engaged in the construction of XML software. Jon xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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