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Re: Come On, DTD, Come On! Thoughts on DSDL Part 9

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• Subject: Re: Come On, DTD, Come On! Thoughts on DSDL Part 9
• From: Marcus Carr <mcarr@a...>
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:06:51 +1000
• Organization: Allette Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Arjun Ray wrote:

> Agreed.  The SGML 1-ambiguity rules are only the result of an ad hoc
> approach to OMITTAG inference problems.  When an instance is at least
> amply tagged, validation becomes a matching problem only, not a predictive
> parsing problem any more.

Are we really certain that there will never be a mechanism similar to OMITTAG in XML?
A year ago I would have bet that nobody would ever put any further work into DTDs,
yet here we are. Does anyone really have that much trouble with ambiguity? I can't
remember the last time someone brought a problem with an ambiguous model to the
attention of the list. It seems that if we left the door open, we may get something
for nothing in the future.


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Marcus Carr                      email:  mcarr@a...
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