research results

SGML exceptions analysis. The results shown below are from running the prototype software tool described in:

A New Tool for SGML with Applications for the World Wide Web, Proceedings of the 1998 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, February, 1998.

Unraveling Exceptions, Conference Proceedings: SGML/XML 97, Washington D.C., December, 1997.

It is strongly recommended that you read at least one of the above articles, before attempting to review the results below:

Results for HTML 4.0

DTD (attributes removed and other syntactic simplifications, so that the DTD can be parsed by the very simple front end of the prototype).
Dynamic Content Models, element order: The DCMs for all elements in the order in which the elements occur in the DTD.
Effective exceptions. The effective exceptions for each DCM.
Effective Exceptions, all. The effective exceptions unioned together for each element.
Summary information about the DTD and its DCMs.