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Peter writes: > [Sean Mc Grath <digitome@i...> on Sat, 04 Oct 1997 09:22:25 +0100] > > However, if developers implemented DTDs via a transformation to XML-Data..... > > > The XML world would then have the freedom to create > > new and better syntaxes for schemata safe in the knowledge that > > todays tools that can process XML will process these new syntactic > > sugars via transformation to base XML - the mother of all syntaxes. > > This idea has always been attractive to me; it seems to give everyone > the flexibility they want, without imposing unnecessary restrictions. > > However, unless the transformations are extremely well-designed, XML > DTDs generated in this way are not likely to be particularly > human-readable (one of the arguments for keeping XML DTDs to begin > with). > > I don't see this as a reason not to use this scheme, I just think that > the transformations should be well thought out and well documented, > and should have the readability of the generated DTDs as a requirement > from the outset. Speaking only for myself, I strongly endorse this view, am committed to it myself, and believe it is the best recipe for sanity available during what I see as the experimental phase of schema development we are now embarking on. ht 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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