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DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > David C said. > > the HEAD _element_ is not optional it has to be there. > > The DTD says the content model for HTML is: > > > > > <!ENTITY % html.content "HEAD, BODY"> > > > > However because it _must_ be there, the system can tell it's there > > without you needing to put any tags in, so both the start and end tag > > may be omitted. > > Wow. Isn't it amazing how easy the SGML world is forgotten! And that's a bad thing? When I started messing with markup in 1993-94, I was using HTML (pre-2.0) to provide enhanced versions of Gopher menus for Mosaic users. I started using both XML and XSL in 1999, like many of the other 'old-timers' on this list. I doubt I'm in the minority here when I say I've never had any significant exposure to SGML -- and from what I've seen of SGML, I'm quite content with my ignorance! :) Besides, isn't it one of the (perhaps post-facto) points of HTML and especially XML to simplify SGML a bit, thereby enabling its widespread adoption by people like me, who find the idea of using or producing tools for processing SGML daunting enough to make them avoid SGML altogether? Mike -- Mike J. Brown | http://skew.org/~mike/resume/ Denver, CO, USA | http://skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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