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On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 19:38 -0300, Timothy W. Cook wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w...> wrote: > > > If the DTD or Schema conflicts with what's in the primary text, the > > primary text is what's right, not the schema. This is referred to in the > > literature as descriptive markup. > > > > Liam > > Really? > > Well, that closes Simon's argument then. There is absolutely no need > for a schema. Since it does nothing. > If the primary document is always the correct source, without > question. No need for schemas. For this particular use case - representing a document as it actually exists - if you find a poem in the index or a letter from the editor's aunt in a glossary (I have seen both) then the DTD or Schema had beeter allow those things. The existence of descriptive markup does not rule out a case for prescriptive markup. Best, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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