Re: Images & mouseovers

by Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg(at)idyllmtn.com>

Date:	Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:51:33 -0700
To:	"David Meadows" <david(at)heroes.force9.co.uk>, "Bryan Bateman" <batemanb(at)home.com>
Cc:	"KathyW" <kathyw(at)home.albury.net.au>, <hwg-xml(at)hwg.org>
References:	idyllmtn astra
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At 12:02 AM +0100 9/27/00, David Meadows wrote:
>"Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-hwg(at)idyllmtn.com> wrote:
>  > I didn't write a DTD for it; it's pretty ad-hoc.  I don't have a
>>  formal schema or anything.  (The cool thing about XML is that
>  > you don't have to have a DTD!  Well, not a formal one.)
>You're sure that's a "cool thing"? You don't think it's more of an "unwanted
>side effect"?
>Sorry to play devil's advocate all the time Kynn, but coming from an SGML
>background I find XML downright sloppy and annoying a lot of the time.

One man's bug is another man's feature. :)  I understand that SGML
folks probably would be driven crazy by XML, but I also believe that
it is a strength -and- a deliberate design feature of XML that
DTDs are not required.

--Kynn
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