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Henry S. Thompson wrote: > 2) Complexity is in the eye of the beholder, and the advantage to the > user of being able to use the SAME graphical UI to construct both > instance and schema might be taken to operate in favour of the schema > approach in this area. User interface designers should know how to present data from widely varying sources in a uniform manner. That is why the same class browser (e.g.) can work for C++ and Java, and the same file browser can work for local files and for file systems accessed via FTP (which are syntactically very different from local function calls!). Standard wordprocessors can wordprocess files in a variety of different formats. Valid reasons for standardizing on a single syntax for any of these things are: #1. to protect the user's data from control by a single vendor (obviously not an issue in this case) #2. to reduce the workload for implementors (which I suspect is the real issue in this case) and #3. to to reduce the cost of entry to the market (another issue in this case). In other words, as Len has pointed out, the DTDs-as-instances efforts are primarily focused on making life easier for vendors, perhaps at the cost of simplicity for users. If this results in more tools, then it might be a net win, but we don't know yet. Of course particular DTDs-as-instances proposals may have other benefits, but those benefits could as easily be added to DTD syntax as to some new syntax. Paul Prescod 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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