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From: hartman@ide.com (Robert Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: Re: Is there a DTD standard?
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Date: 12 Sep 90 18:03:47 GMT
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In article <BZS.90Sep11225016@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>There are some books which describe sample DTD's, for example "SGML:
>An Author's Guide" by Martin Bryan (Addison-Wesley.)
>
>But none of these things is authoritative.
>
>If no one can come forward with an authoritative DTD why don't those
>of us who understand a little about this stuff come up with a DTD
>right here? If nothing else the discussions surrounding that should be
>informative to those trying to learn more. We can call it "The USENET
>SGML DTD" and put it into the public domain. If it seems reasonable
>I'll use it for "The Online Book Initiative", we've been using some of
>our own conventions but it wouldn't be hard to conform.

A GREAT IDEA!!!  -r