Re: HTML better for small PDAs

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 13:22:15 EST, Jeremy Foshee said:
> Valdis wrote:
> >Now, who was saying that you didn't need a DTD to understand the XML? ;)
> 
> You don't. XML has the ability to stand on it's own if you desire.

Umm.. without a DTD, how do you interpret all the markup that was the POINT
of using XML?  Yes, a XML document without the DTD can be syntax-checked, but
let's think for a moment - if you don't have the (hypothetical) rfc2119 DTD,
what is the *semantics* of:

<point>Implementors of Turbo-Foobar <should>support the XYZ extension</should>
</point>

Before you say "but we all know what 'should' means", consider that we felt
it necessary to publish RFC2119.

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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