You, Tim Bray, wrote:
++
++ At 10:11 PM 10/25/98 -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:
++ >The *huge* difference between XML & HTML to me is that you must
++ >explicitly state, somewhere, exactly what is and isn't essential.
++ >That's the whole point of the DTD.
++
++ The DTD is (a) not required and (b) cannot be used to determine
++ what is or isn't "essential". -Tim
++
What makes you think a DTD isn't required? True, XML have to be
well formed, such that an XML parser can *parse* them without a
DTD, but that's about all.
SGML based documents have DTDs.
Abigail
