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Re: And the DTD says, "I'm NOT dead yet!!"

• From: Caroline Clewlow <cclewlow@e...>
• To: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 08:56:34 +0000

I can see that XML schema does not cover entity declarations - but RELAX claims
that it's use of hedgeRules allows the creation and naming of a hedge model
that mimics the way parameter entities are used in DTD's.  Is this the same
kind of entity, as the word seems to be used in a number of different contexts
?

If anyone can clarify this for me ?  Thanks !

Caroline

Norman Walsh wrote:

> / Dan Vint <dvint@s...> was heard to say:
> | I didn't doubt that someone with way too  much time on their hands would
> | eventually do somehting like this. ;-)
>
> LOL!
>
> | What gets me is the statement that
> | DTDs are dead when the statment only comes from one side of the world. It
> | seems to me that DTDs have worked and would continue to work as long as
> | software continues to support them.
>
> I hear you.
>
> | BTW, how are you handling entities in your conversion effort? Seems that
> | Schemas has sort of punted on this issue currently, which might not be
> | a problem in the data centric world and maybe not an issue in XML if some
> | one would ever implement the fragement standard.
>
> DocBook doesn't define any entities, so I didn't have to cross that
> bridge. If I'd had to cross it, I don't know how I would have. That's
> a gaping chasm.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
> --
> Norman Walsh <ndw@n...> | There has never been a perfect
> http://nwalsh.com/            | government, because men have passions;
>                               | and if they did not have passions,
>                               | there would be no need for
>                               | government.--Voltaire

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