XML Help Freeforall: Entities?
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:50 pm
Since my work has now shifted over to parsing HTML and then coercing it into a valid doctype, I need a more formal knowledge of HTML. This includes related technologies as XHTML, XML, CSS, all related RFCs, DTDs, and SGML. It's a whole lotta work, and it's gonna be a lot of coding and brainthinking. If anyone is interested in the fruits of my work so far, see this DTD aware HTML lexer + parser.
Most of these are well-documented on http://www.w3.org/ which is nice because I'm a big fan of the World Wide Web Consortium. However, SGML's formal specification seems to have disappeared down a black hole.
Now, XML is just a more restrictive subset of SGML, and I mostly plan on forming valid XHTML when I'm done, which can easily be ported to valid HTML 4.01 with a few style changes. I plan on study the XML specification in depth, but I was wondering if it was worth the effort to find a copy of the SGML declaration and get familiar with it, or just scratch that and go solely with XML.
Most of these are well-documented on http://www.w3.org/ which is nice because I'm a big fan of the World Wide Web Consortium. However, SGML's formal specification seems to have disappeared down a black hole.
Now, XML is just a more restrictive subset of SGML, and I mostly plan on forming valid XHTML when I'm done, which can easily be ported to valid HTML 4.01 with a few style changes. I plan on study the XML specification in depth, but I was wondering if it was worth the effort to find a copy of the SGML declaration and get familiar with it, or just scratch that and go solely with XML.