• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 23:24:46 -0500 (EST)

Tim Bray scripsit:

> >How will future users make sense of the format without
> >a DTD?
> 
> And what, pray tell, part of a DTD helps you "make sense" of a
> format? -Tim

Hear, hear.  I spent far too much time poring over the XMLspec DTD
and some examples (which didn't quite match the published DTD any more),
without understanding any too much of it.  Reading the documentation
(in English) made all the difference.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@c...
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

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