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RE: DTD invented by Microsoft?!

• From: akirkpatrick@i...
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:09:22 +0000

Could someone explain what "instance syntax for type definitions"
means. Thanks!

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Len writes:

>  This appears to be the long awaited and somewhat dreaded
>  attempt to use instance syntax for type definitions.  It
>  is an idea that has been floated several times on the
>  XML WG list and generally resisted.

It was resisted, correctly in my view, as a component of XML-lang
itself, and in the decision the point was made several times that the
right place for this was one level up, as a generic application.
That's what the schema proposal in the XML-data document is aimed at
providing.

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