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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > 1. SDDs shall use XML document syntax. This is a little more vague than I would prefer. Here's a DTD-like schema in document syntax notation: <?XML version="1.0"?> <SCHEMA> <![CDATA[ <!ELEMENT ...> <!ATTLIST ...> ]]> </SCHEMA> This is an exaggeration, because we aren't likely to do that, but we might be tempted to use #PCDATA for content models. The essential point, I think, is that SDDs should use element nesting and XLinks to describe *all* constraints that should be checkable by the computer. The only required character data should be descriptions of things. The only CDATA attributes should be XLinks. Perhaps for version 2.0 it would make sense to have an optional encoding that uses #PCDATA content models etc. I don't think that it is so terrible to require tool vendors to build small parsers inside of their XML applications. XPointers require that, for instance. But it is better to use element nesting for version 1.0: * Implementation is easier, because the API is predictable (element events in SAX or element nodes in DOM) * Rigorous specification is easier, because we don't need to have BOTH a DTD and a BNF to describe SDDs * A DTD smart editor can guide SDD creation "all of the way down". Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco Three things to be wary of: A new kid in his prime A man who knows the answers, and code that runs first time http://www.geezjan.org/humor/computers/threes.html 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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