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		shawn_w 62 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Forth: The programming language that writes itself Wasn't HTML4 the last one defined as a SGML DTD? 5 and on is its own beast. (rip XHTML)

gldrk 62 days ago [–]

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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