• To: "'Bill Lindsey'" <bill@b...>,"'Michael Brennan'" <Michael_Brennan@A...>
• Subject: RE: Doctypes again (was Re: Documents within documents)
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:50:12 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <3C633F1A.90707@b...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> For me, the most compelling use for (the notion
> of) document type is as a contract.  A document
> type declaration asserts that a document's
> syntax follows some set of rules to express the
> document creator's intended semantics.

Yes. I've always thought one of the weakest things about DTDs is that a
document is considered valid if it meets the sender's criteria, whether or
not it meets the recipient's.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@s...

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