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A comment on The HTML 5 DTD project.

Re:The HTML 5 DTD project by Supermighty on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @07:13AM (#2602115)
>I use Emacs+PSGML to write HTML. I can’t without a DTD.

This seems like a failing of Emacs+PSGML rather than HTML5 lack of DTD.

Or rather why are you using an SGML tool to write a language not based on SGML? (from wikipedia "The HTML5 syntax is no longer based on SGML")

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Re:The HTML 5 DTD project by cosmohh on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @07:29AM (#2602144)
AFAIK the PSGML mode is also the favourite one to use for XML editing.
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Re:The HTML 5 DTD project by adw on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @07:32AM (#2602148)
nah, your best bet's definitely nXML - http://www.thaiopensource.com/nxml-mode/
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Re:The HTML 5 DTD project by s2r2 on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @07:40AM (#2602160)
...using http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html for DTD -> RelaxNG conversion, I agree.
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