Re: [htdig-dev] request for manage_attributes.pl (creates attributes based on defaults.xml)

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

> Also, I'm still new to XML so pardon what may be a stupid question, 
> but, rather than writing your own DTD, would it be possible for us to 
> borrow the DTD for XHTML and then modify that to meet our needs 
> (adding our own custom elements)? That way we could include all types 
> of html in the documentation (the examples, specifically).

But this is exactly "writing your own DTD." The point of an XML type is 
that it can be validated, so if you're using XHTML, it doesn't have 
"custom elements." What you're arguing about is the syntax of our 
custom DTD.

I'm not sure we really want all of XHTML in our DTD. It seems more like 
we want something pretty flexible, but maybe more like DocBook than 
XHTML.

-Geoff