Re: W3C Validation

thanks.  I'll be studying XML very soon so I'll be looking for that.
Kate Pollara


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate A. Shorey" <networkkate(at)rocketmail.com>
To: "Kate Pollara" <kpollara(at)home.com>; <jtrimble(at)vartec.net>;
<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: W3C Validation


> Kate and Julie,
> You do nnot need them to make the average web page
> render.
> But you do need them for XML, and i believe you need
> them for using concepts not in the default DTD.
>
> Perhaps List Guide Pam Shorey can assist us? Or
> another list member?It probably explains this
> somewhere online.
>
> Kate
> kate(at)solamentekate.com
>
> --- Kate Pollara <kpollara(at)home.com> wrote:
> > This is interesting because I just completed a Web
> > Design Fundamentals
> > Certificate class (after also having completed
> > various hwg classes on HTML
> > 4.0, CSS, etc.) and at the end of the class I asked
> > the teacher why we
> > hadn't discussed DTD's.  Her response:  " Don't need
> > em!".  I was surprised
> > since this was drilled into our opening hwg lesson.
> > Kate Pollara
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <jtrimble(at)vartec.net>
> > To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:31 AM
> > Subject: RE: W3C Validation
> >
> >
> > > Fuzzy wrote:
> > >
> > > "That is why a DTD is a REQUIRED part of an HTML
> > document (notice - no
> > > "concept" disclaimers on this one).""
> > >
> > >
> > > I was reading Elizabeth Castro's HTML 4 from
> > Peachpit Press, which I have
> > > seen recommended on this list, and she says that
> > she no longer recommends
> > > using *any* DTD.  Therefore, she at least feels
> > that they are not a
> > > *necessary* part of a web page.
> > >
> > > I am new to this whole concept, am confused and am
> > trying to figure all
> > this
> > > out (and *not* attempting to start an argument or
> > attack any particular
> > > viewpoint).  Any thoughts as to reconciling these
> > two diametrically
> > opposed
> > > viewpoints?
> > >
> > > Julie
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Captain F.M. O'Lary
> > [mailto:ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:40 PM
> > > To: Jay Smith; HWG Basics
> > > Subject: Re: W3C Validation: Why won't HotMetal
> > "DTD" HTLM validate?
> > >
> > >
> > > At 02:19 PM 2/13/01 -0500, Jay Smith wrote:
> > > >In the past, I have asked on this list for an
> > explanation of the
> > > >DOCTYPE line. I have gotten a number of replies,
> > but none of them
> > > >REALLY seems to address my question.
> > > >
> > > >What does this DOCTYPE line DO for HTML pages?
> > Who/what uses it?
> > > >When?  How?
> > >
> > > ***Conceptually****
> > >
> > > The DTD identifies the "flavor" of markup the
> > browser is about to
> > encounter.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Fuzzy.
> > >
> >
> ______________________________________________________________
> > > Captain F.M. O'Lary
> > > webmaster(at)canopy.net
> > > Copywight 2001 Elmer Fudd. All wights wesewved.
> > >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
>
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