Valid "HTML 0.f" Example

This file exercises all features possible within the earliest surviving DTD which dates from August 20, 1992. A copy of this DTD has been provided locally for actual use and posted at a location specified in the following <!DOCTYPE> declaration: <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "http://www.the-pope.com/html0.f.dtd"> This DTD could handle all list types, UL, OL, DIR, and MENU, along with DL, and COMPACT versions of each. See here a short example of each in the same order:

First unordered list item
Second unordered list item

First ordered list item
Second ordered list item

First directory item

Second directory item

First menu item

Second menu item

First definition term: First definition defined
Second definition term: Second definition defined

First compact unordered list item
Second compact unordered list item

First compact ordered list item
Second compact ordered list item

First compact directory item

Second compact directory item

First compact menu item

Second compact menu item

First compact definition term: First compact definition defined
Second compact definition term: Second compact definition defined

However, it does not take COMPACT straight but requires it to be set to something, e. g. COMPACT=COMPACT (sort of like if we were using XHTML).

It also handles all six levels of headers:

First level heading

Second level heading

Third level heading

Fourth level heading

Fifth level heading

Sixth level heading

This file also has all of TITLE, NEXTID, and ISINDEX in its head, but the ISINDEX here is only for show; there is no software on the server for this instance. And an XMP was used to show the DOCTYPE above, so now see here a sample text using LISTING:This should be very tiny print. Here is a test link pointing to the "HTML 0.f" DTD, right here!

Finally, this file defines entities for open and close brackets, ampersand, and a bullet. Here they are, respectively: < > & •.

This version of HTML also handles the ADDRESS element, see here:

Somewhere north of Taft, California

Finally, there are some other limitations to the DTD for this version of HTML, namely that PLAINTEXT cannot be supported since it has nine letters and Dan Connolly (who prepared this DTD) had not as yet experimented with the SGML declaration part in which a default length of 8 could be modified to something longer to accomodate that particular tag. Furthermore, though it uses DOCUMENT as the BODY, only the closing tag can be validly included, as it is in this file, but the opening tag creates an error, though its implied presence, as in this file, seems to be handled well enough. Given these problems, plus the otherwise nonexistent "bullet" entity, and the need for COMPACT to be set to some value, I do not consider this a usable DTD, although it can parse a simple file like this one.

This "HTML 0.f" demonstration file, "html0.f.html," is "HTML 0.f" compliant.

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