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Eric B. Bednarz

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More options Oct 28 2004, 7:40 pm

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From: Eric B. Bednarz <bedn...@fahr-zur-hoelle.org>

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:40:49 +0200

Local: Thurs, Oct 28 2004 7:40 pm

Subject: Re: XHTML / HTML

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Spartanicus <m...@privacy.net> writes:
> Editing the existing Strict DTD so that it requires elements to be
> closed is easy (took me five minutes). Regarding mandatory quoting of
> attributes I haven't managed that, afaics this isn't part of the DTD. If
> anyone knows how to do that please share.

For starters, you will have to have a local validating system to be able
to pass a customized SGML declaration to the parser (theoretically you
could include it in the document entity itself, but let's stop kidding).

Get binaries or source at:

<http://www.jclark.com/sp/howtoget.htm>

Especially if you need to be able to fetch external subsets from virtual
hosts you may prefer to use lq-nsgmls instead:

<http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/>

Grab the SGML declaration of HTML 4.01 and locate under MINIMIZE

SHORTTAG YES

and replace that with

SHORTTAG
STARTTAG
EMPTY NO
UNCLOSED NO
NETENABL NO
ENDTAG
EMPTY NO
UNCLOSED NO
ATTRIB
DEFAULT YES
OMITNAME NO
VALUE NO

Set up a catalog:

SGMLDECL path/to/custom.decl
DOCTYPE HTML path/to/custom.dtd

If you have (X)Emacs (if not, why not?) adjust the initialisation file
for neat integration with PSGML.

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