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Re: Documents within documents

• To: Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@A...>
• Subject: Re: Documents within documents
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:34:23 -0500
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Michael Brennan wrote:


> And I still want to kill off DTDs. I've just come around to the
> understanding that we have to be sure we are adequately addressing all of
> the use cases they serve before we do so -- and XML Schema is clearly not a
> DTD killer, but perhaps RELAX NG is.


Hear, hear!

I think what with RELAX NG, XSLT, and XInclude, the two
issues left that DTDs are still critical for are:

	1) What is an ID?
	2) How do we write characters we can't type directly?

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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