From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 19 08:09:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA20938 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 08:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA20933 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 08:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle (root@ip204.konnections.com [192.41.71.204]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id JAA13446; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 09:08:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <335A3E25.5E72A2E@konnections.com> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 09:02:45 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Mayo CC: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ignore last request for SGML info References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark: The DTD is the Document Type Definition. This is where the document is defined so that the compiler can expand the ``macrps'' defined for that document (Lack of a better definition) I believe HTML is a DTD under SGML. I could be wrong.... Each `type' of document needs a DTD to explain which parts of SGML will be used in that type and how.... There's a good book devoted to DTDs.... I'll have to pull it off the shelf, so I'll email the title & stuff later.... -Mike Mark Mayo wrote: > > Sorry but discovered info after blasting away a message to the list.... > I just came across a message from John Fieber explaning the whole > linuxdoc/docbook DTD thing - as well as some general links to SGML > resources. Thanks John! > > I'm still not clear exactly what a 'DTD' is though.. time to truck over to > the book store and see what's available under the SGML topic (John also > recommeded some good SGML books, that I'll be looking for) :-) > > -Mark > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com > RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark > > finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to > get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be > thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert