Forth: The programming language that writes itself

Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself by gldrk on Sunday October 19, 2025 @11:23PM (#45639952)

HTML uses a ton of SGML features not part of XML (sometimes erroneously though to be non-standard ‘tag soup’, not to mention self-closing tags). You need either a specialized parser or an SGML processor + DTD.

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Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself by shawn_w on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:08AM (#45640316)

Wasn't HTML4 the last one defined as a SGML DTD? 5 and on is its own beast.

(rip XHTML)

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Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself by gldrk on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:44AM (#45640647)

You are right. There is a third-party DTD that should be mostly compatible (https://sgmljs.sgml.net/docs/html5.html).

In reality, HTML4 was never implemented to the letter by user agents, because people do things like putting -- inside comments.

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