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Peter> Peter Murray-Rust <URL:mailto:peter@u...> => In article <3.0.1.16.19980524201322.1cbffb1a@p...>, => Peter wrote: Peter> One fundamental aspect is whether there needs to be any software or Peter> APIs [for an XML document structure schema]. Although theoretically Peter> SAX could have been written as an API, in practice it was critical Peter> that David produced an implementation as proof of concept. I think a translator to DTD syntax is essential. If the proposed schema supports features not expressible in DTD syntax, they will of course be lost (which imposes a constraint on the schema definition - extra features must be omissible without detriment to existing document-consumers, or must be marked as being more than SGML). I intend to play with writing such a tool using DSSSL and Jade (using Jade's SGML back-end to write the DTD - ugh!). As a side-effect, it should be easy to produce pretty printed documentation from the prose in the schema (I'm assuming the schema will provide for in-line documentation, perhaps in a Literal Programming style). If the schema definition is specified in its own language, as the XML spec is written in XML, then it is important to be able to translate it to something people can use now. -- 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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