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        <a name="title" id="title"></a> Building
        XHTML<sup>&#8482;</sup> Modules
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        <a name="subtitle" id="subtitle"></a> W3C Working Draft 5
        January 2000
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        <dd>
          <a href="mailto:altheim@eng.sun.com">Murray Altheim</a>,
          Sun Microsystems<br />
          <a href="mailto:s.mccarron@opengroup.org">Shane
          McCarron</a>, Applied Testing and Technology
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    <h1>
      <a name="abstract" id="abstract"></a> Abstract
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    <p>
      This working draft defines the mechanism for defining markup
      language modules that are compatible with the modularization
      framework used by XHTML. This includes a definition of the
      way in which an abstract module is specified, the way in
      which this abstraction is mapped into an XML DTD, and the way
      in which the resulting DTD module can be combined with other
      XHTML DTD modules to create new markup languages. In the
      future, it is expected that instructions will also be
      provided for mapping the abstract specifications into an XML
      Schema [<a href=
      "references.html#ref_xmlschema">XMLSCHEMA</a>]. Note that the
      materials in this document were formerly part of the
      Modularization of XHTML document, but have been separated out
      for editorial purposes.
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    <h1>
      <a name="status" id="status"></a> Status of this document
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    <p>
      <em>This section describes the status of this document at the
      time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this
      document. The latest status of this document series is
      maintained at the W3C.</em>
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    <p>
      This is the <a href= 
      "http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/#last-call">
      "Last Call Working Draft"</a> of "Building XHTML Modules".
      The Last Call review period ends at 2359Z on 1 Feburary 2000.
      Please send review comments before the review period ends to
      <a href="mailto:www-html-editor@w3.org">
      www-html-editor@w3.org</a>.
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    <p>
      The Working Group anticipates asking the W3C Director to
      advance this document to Proposed Recommendation after the
      Working Group processes Last Call review comments and
      incorporates resolutions into the Guidelines.
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    <p>
      This document has been produced as part of the <a href= 
      "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/">W3C HTML Activity</a>. The goals
      of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Group/">HTML Working
      Group</a> <i>(<a href=
      "http://cgi.w3.org/MemberAccess/">members only</a>)</i> are
      discussed in the <a href= 
      "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Group/HTMLcharter">HTML Working
      Group charter</a> <i>(<a href=
      "http://cgi.w3.org/MemberAccess/">members only</a>)</i>.
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      This is a W3C Working Draft for review by W3C Members and
      other interested parties. It is a draft document and may be
      updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any
      time. It is inappropriate to use W3C Working Drafts as
      reference material or to cite them as other than "work in
      progress". This is work in progress and does not imply
      endorsement by, or the consensus of, either W3C or
      participants of the HTML WG Group.
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    <p>
      A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical
      documents can be found at <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR">
      http://www.w3.org/TR</a>.
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          2. <a href="terms.html#a_terms" class="tocxref">Terms and
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          3. <a href="conformance.html#s_conform" class="tocxref">
          Conformance Definition</a>
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          4. <a href="abstraction.html#s_abstraction" class=
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          5. <a href="xml_dtd.html#s_xmldtds" class="tocxref">XML
          DTD Modules</a>
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          6. <a href="developing.html#s_developingdtds" class= 
          "tocxref">Developing DTDs with defined and extended
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          A. <a href="references.html#a_refs" class="tocxref">
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          1. <a href="introduction.html#s_intro" class="tocxref">
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              1.1. <a href="introduction.html#s_intro_building"
              class="tocxref">Why Build XHTML Modules?</a>
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              1.2. <a href="introduction.html#s_intro_abstract"
              class="tocxref">Abstract Modules</a>
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              1.3. <a href= 
              "introduction.html#s_intro_xml_dtd_modules" class= 
              "tocxref">XML DTD Modules</a>
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          Conformance Definition</a> 
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              3.1. <a href="conformance.html#s_conform_module"
              class="tocxref">Module Conformance</a>
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              3.2. <a href=
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              "tocxref">Naming Rules</a> 
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                  3.2.1. <a href="conformance.html#sec_3.2.1."
                  class="tocxref">Rationale for Naming Rules</a>
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          4. <a href="abstraction.html#s_abstraction" class=
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              4.1. <a href="abstraction.html#sec_4.1." class= 
              "tocxref">Syntactic Conventions</a>
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              4.2. <a href="abstraction.html#s_common_types" class= 
              "tocxref">Content Types</a>
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              4.3. <a href="abstraction.html#s_common_attrtypes"
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              4.4. <a href="abstraction.html#sec_4.4." class= 
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                  4.4.1. <a href="abstraction.html#sec_4.4.1."
                  class="tocxref">XHTML Skiing Module</a>
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          5. <a href="xml_dtd.html#s_xmldtds" class="tocxref">XML
          DTD Modules</a> 
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              5.1. <a href="xml_dtd.html#s_facdtdcomps" class= 
              "tocxref">Implementing Document Model Modules in the
              DTD</a> 
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                  5.1.1. <a href="xml_dtd.html#ss_p14n" class= 
                  "tocxref">Parameterization</a>
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                  5.1.2. <a href="xml_dtd.html#ss_m12n" class= 
                  "tocxref">Modularization</a>
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          6. <a href="developing.html#s_developingdtds" class= 
          "tocxref">Developing DTDs with defined and extended
          modules</a> 
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              6.1. <a href="developing.html#s_dev_attrs" class= 
              "tocxref">Defining additional attributes</a>
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              6.2. <a href="developing.html#s_dev_elems" class= 
              "tocxref">Defining additional elements</a>
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              6.3. <a href="developing.html#s_dev_contentmodel"
              class="tocxref">Defining the content model for a
              collection of modules</a> 
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                  6.3.1. <a href="developing.html#sec_6.3.1."
                  class="tocxref">Integrating a stand-alone module
                  into XHTML</a>
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                  6.3.2. <a href="developing.html#sec_6.3.2."
                  class="tocxref">Mixing a new module throughout
                  the modules in XHTML</a>
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              6.4. <a href="developing.html#sec_6.4." class=
              "tocxref">Creating a new DTD</a> 
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                  6.4.1. <a href="developing.html#sec_6.4.1."
                  class="tocxref">Creating a simple DTD</a>
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                  6.4.2. <a href="developing.html#sec_6.4.2."
                  class="tocxref">Creating a DTD by extending
                  XHTML</a>
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                  6.4.3. <a href="developing.html#sec_6.4.3."
                  class="tocxref">Creating a DTD by removing and
                  replacing XHTML modules</a>
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                  6.4.4. <a href="developing.html#sec_6.4.4."
                  class="tocxref">Creating a DTD from whole
                  cloth</a>
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              6.5. <a href="developing.html#sec_6.5." class=
              "tocxref">Using the new DTD</a>
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          References</a> 
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              A.1. <a href="references.html#a_normrefs" class= 
              "tocxref">Normative References</a>
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              A.2. <a href="references.html#a_inforefs" class= 
              "tocxref">Informative References</a>
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