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• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 09:42:38 -0400

After all the discussion about public identifiers here in the last few
weeks, I think this article might be interesting:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/04/14/doctype/index.html

Eric Meyer discusses how Internet Explorer 5 for the Mac is using DOCTYPE
declarations to determine how closely its processing will adhere to W3C
standards or backward-compatibility modes.

It's not quite the same stuff we were talking about last week, but it also
shows that maybe DOCTYPE has some life in it.  (On the other hand, I worry
that we're piling too much on this relatively inadequate packaging
mechanism.  Oh well.)

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
Building XML Applications
Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical
Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth
http://www.simonstl.com

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