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Rob McDougall wrote: > > 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 > Umm... You can include an SGML Declaration, DTD and instance in a single file and it is a completely self-describing file read by a single parser. I don't think that is the advantage of the Microsoft approach. I think you can do it with a simpler parser; however, the tradeoff is a harder to read schema, so a single parser writer (or several) gain on a few hours of effort but the user of the schema loses. If that *is* the tradeoff, it isn't much of a bargain. len bullard ips 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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