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If I remember correctly, the advantages are listed in the spec. The main advantage being that you can include the XML-Data definition within the XML file itself, so that you now can send a completely self-describing file that can be read by a single (XML) parser. Rob ======================================================= Rob McDougall Phone: (613)751-4800 ext.5232 JetForm Corporation Fax: (613)594-8886 http://www.jetform.com mailto:rmcdouga@j... ======================================================= -----Original Message----- From: Paul Madsen [SMTP:paul_madsen@q...] Sent: Monday, September 29, 1997 9:46 AM To: XML DEV Subject: XML-Data: advantages over DTD syntax? 9:31 AM 29/09/97 Hi, I posted this to comp.text.sgml but didn't get much response (thanks J.R.) _________ The XML-Data specification from Microsoft (http://www.sil.org/sgml/xml-data9706223.htm) proposes that the logic traditionally expressed in the DTD (content models, attribute lists, entity definitions, etc.) be expressed using the syntax of XML instances instead. For instance, instead of the DTD element declaration <!ELEMENT book - - (p+) > the XML-Data scheme rule would be something like <elementType id="book"> <elt href="#p" occurs="PLUS"/> </elementType> I'm attracted to the the idea if only because it seems "cool". But what does this gain us? What deficiencies with the DTD formalism does it address? Is it the ability to extend object types so that one class of object is a specialization of another more general class? Do not Architectural forms provide the traditional DTD syntax just that ability? Thanks for any insight. Paul xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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