Is Dedicated Hosting for Critical DTDs Necessary? 140
pcause asks: "Recently there was a glitch, when someone at Netscape took down a page that had an important DTD (for RSS), used by many applications and services. This got me thinking that many or all of the important DTDs that software and commerce depend on are hosted at various commercial entities. Is this a sane way to build an XML based Internet infrastructure? Companies come and go all of the time; this means that the storage and availability of those DTDs is in constant jeopardy. It strikes me that we need an infrastructure akin to the root server structure to hold the key DTDs that are used throughout the industry. What organization would be the likely custodian of such data, and what would be the best way to insure such an infrastructure stays funded?"
I know! (Score:5, Funny)
Mhahahahaha. Yeah. I know, I crack myself up.
Re:w3c (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DTD? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I know! (Score:5, Funny)
Mhahahahaha. Yeah. I know, I crack myself up.
sure there is! (Score:3, Funny)
I have a server in my basement we could use. (Score:5, Funny)
DTDs, XML entities and the non-breaking space (Score:4, Funny)
It's trivial to define " " yourself in a DTD, (<!ENTITY nbsp "&#a0;">) and many of the standard DTDs out there do define it, but by the XML 1.0 standard it's got to be defined somewhere or else the XML won't parse.
Re:I have a server in my basement we could use. (Score:3, Funny)
I have an old Sun Sparc 5/70 that still works. Rock solid machine and has OpenBSD loaded on it. I even have a static IP address on my dialup service I could put it on.
Re:Call me crazy... (Score:5, Funny)
Your trust in the world is cute.