At 20:42 2002 09 06 +0900, Michael Smith wrote: >Anyway, about the question at the end of number 3 above -- But what will >that do to interchange? -- It seems like interchange isn't an issue if > > * the customized DTDs are strict subsets of the complete DTD > > * and users/user communities treat their customized DTDs as "authoring > DTDs" and continue to use the full DTD for validation (that is, > don't expect that DTDs that others interchange with their community > will validate against their custom authoring-DTD subset)
But that leads me to conclude you don't really want to change/subset the DTD, you just want some way to reduce the set a given author has to understand/work with. And I don't see that requirement as being addressed at the DTD level, I see it being addressed at the tool level and/or document/education level. paul
