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At 02:49 PM 2/24/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >Jonathan Borden writes: > > > excellent. one point: there is no reason to define text/xhtml as > > opposed to using text/xml and inserting a DOCTYPE or perhaps a > > default xmlns definition. If a user-agent needs to know the DOCTYPE > > ... look at it! > >Unfortunately, that doesn't work at all -- all DOCTYPE gives me is the >name of the root element, optionally accompanied by an internal DTD >subset and identifiers for an external DTD subset. Right; as many have pointed out, in both SGML and XML the <!DOCTYPE doesn't tell you much about the document type. >The name of the root element is locally-scoped to the document itself, Yes, but what if it wasn't? It just dawned on me that if you had *two* header parameters for text/html, one being the namespace URI of the root, the other being its type, that would really give you a lot of help in identifying what kind of thing this is. E.g., if the namespace URI is http://www.w3.org/html40 (or whatever they decide to use) and the root type is <html>, well, you know pretty well what you're dealing with. -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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