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> XSchema does not disqualify the wider use of the word > "schema", any more than "XPointer" makes it difficult to talk about TEI Pointers or > C++ Pointers or XLink makes it difficult to talk about SGML implicit link, > HTML <LINK> etc. Fair enough. > > How about XTD? It could stand for Extensible Type Definition or XML Type > > Definition. > > I also like this, as long as we get the plurality right. Each document > will have multiple type definitions within it. So it makes sense to say > "here's my XTD document", but not "here's my XTD" (which would imply a > single definition). This is an important point. An XTD is like a markup declaration. An XTD document is a collection of XTDs. It encourages the modularity of the declarations. There is a sense in which "Document Type Definition" is misleading for things like CALS tables or MathML. They aren't definitions of document types, rather they are definitions of element types. "Extensible Type Definition" makes this clearer. James -- James Tauber / jtauber@j... Perth, Western Australia XML Pages: http://www.jtauber.com/xml/ 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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