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[Peter C. Gorman]

>Correct me if it's not correct but I think that we should say that HTML
>became (or is becoming) an SGML DTD. That was not the case at it's
>inception. That's why HTML contains so many "typographical" tags which
>don't relate to the structure of the text but with the appearance of the
>text on the screen.  And this is not the correct way of doing things in
>SGML

It may violate the *spirit* of SGML, but I believe compliance is based more
on the syntax than on the semantics of the markup. To quote the most
current (though expired) HTML 3.0 specs:

"HTML is an application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 --
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)."

Which means that they've structured the DTD to conform to the ISO standard
for SGML DTDs. I'm an ardent believer in (and, hopefully, practitioner of)
structural markup, but as long as <i> or <b> mind their syntactic manners
they're valid SGML elements.


PG
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Peter C. Gorman
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University of Wisconsin
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