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Re: Developing 'language tags' for HTML3.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Allen)
Wed Jul 5 15:45:26 1995
From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 15:37:49 EDT
In-Reply-To: dceccald@elaine.crcg.edu (Danyel Ceccaldi)
"Re: Developing 'language tags' for HTML3.0" (Jul 5, 12:25pm)
To: dceccald@elaine.crcg.edu (Danyel Ceccaldi), lynn@pharmdec.wustl.edu,
www-talk@www10.w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@www10.w3.org
>Another point is, that HTML comes from SGML,
and some SGML-rules were broken. One SGML-rule is, that tags
must not be longer than 8 letters (broken by <BLOCKQUOTE>).
Perhaps you can propose a tag, which does not exceed 8 letters.
Nope. SGML's Reference Concrete Syntax is limited to 8 characters,
but the SGML declaration supplied with the HTML 2.0 DTD in the
HTML 2.0 spec extends NAMELEN to 44. No SGML rules are broken.
Regards,
--
Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
