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  • To: Adi Eio <adieio@g...>
  • Subject: Re: XML Schema is not yet widespread??
  • From: Joe Gregorio <joe.gregorio@g...>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:29:47 -0500
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  • Reply-to: Joe Gregorio <joe.gregorio@g...>

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:08:44 +0000, Adi Eio <adieio@g...> wrote:
> Hi
> I was wandering to how can I know the current extent of XML Schema on
> the Web. Because I saw a paper by Mignet et al (2003), that say:
> "conceptual schemas on the XML Web is not yet widespread: only 48% of
> the documents reference DTDs while the number of documents that
> reference XML Schema specifications is insignificant (0.09% of all
> documents)."

Is that % of all instances of documents in the wild, or a % of types
of documents
in the wild? If it is the former, I would not be suprised at that
number given that
the internet is awash in RSS files, for which there will never be a schema.

   -joe

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Joe Gregorio        http://bitworking.org

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