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Re: SAX: Comments (question 7 of 10)

• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@t...>
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• Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 04:18:01 -0500

Antony Blakey wrote:
> I agree, but your example implies that my comments were about the data,
> rather than about the structure itself - I guess I should have pointed
> out that I'm interested in comments in the DTD, so that the DTD can be
> documented automatically. 

The way this is often done is to write a DTD for DTDs, write DTDs in XML
instance syntax and translate that syntax into XML DTD syntax for
machine processing. The strength of XML instance syntax is that it is
infinitely extensible (like any other XML DTD). 

BTW, The weakness of ALWAYS using the XML instance syntax is that it is
infinitely extensible...like HTML.

 Paul Prescod
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