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- Joe Germuska writes:
-
- > That reminds me -- can HTML authors declare new tags? It would seem far
- > too complicated for clients to deal with newly introduced styles, but
- > perhaps, with customizable displays, the client could just add unfamiliar
- > styles to the "style index", and the user could make changes as desired...
- > (remember I know next to nothing about the implementation of Web clients,
- > so if this is outrageous, please be gentle :-)
-
- Actually the ability to extend HTML with specific semantic tags would
- be useful for a variety of applications. At its most straightforward
- the extra tags would be simply ignored by HTML browsers, but would be
- very useful for special purpose indexing or database interfaces. Such
- extensions should be declared using the appropriate SGML elements
- e.g. <!ENTITY>, <!ELEMENT> and <!ATTLIST>.
-
- Best wishes,
-
- Dave Raggett,
-
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