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Re: DTDs still widely used ? was RE: Namespaces A Mess?

• Subject: Re: DTDs still widely used ? was RE: Namespaces A Mess?
• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:49:50 +1000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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before anyone "throws the baby out with the bathwater", can i point out 
that i use dtd's (internally - you can't see them) because i only care 
that the element/attribute structure is correct in incoming messages. 
the rest is handled by the downstream processors.

in this circumstance i'm not sure i want the added complexity of xsd.

rick

DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) wrote:

> Vladimir Gapeyev wrote:
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>>In this regard, I'd also wonder how frequent it is that XML documents do
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>>contain any DOCTYPE declarations, but are neveretheless maintained as valid
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>>w.r.t. to some external DTDs?  (The same wonder applies to the other schema
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>>languages, of course.)
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>Good point. One of the main design decisions for RELAX NG was that
>hardcoding a pointer to a schema inside of a document isn't a good idea.
>There can be good reasons to make XML documents public without making their
>DTDs or schemas public, so public versions may have such pointers removed.
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>Bob
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