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Peter Murray-Rust suggested: >I'd also suggest we set goals a la X*L processes, etc. The last few messages, particularly the interchange between Peter and Paul Prescod, seem to have clarified what we're aiming for, which is considerably less than my original proposal. This is good; I think we have an excellent chance of achieving these smaller goals. Per the X*L processes, a proposed list of 10 goals follows. I've called this project XSD (Extensible or XML Structure Definitions) for now. Structure Definition Documents (SDDs) are the documents that contain Structure Definition information, and XSD is the standard defining the structure of SDDs. 1. SDDs shall use XML document syntax. 2. SDDs shall be transformable into an XML 1.0 DTD containing the same structure. 3. SDDs shall be capable of representing the normalized element and attribute structures defined in XML 1.0 DTDs. 4. SDDs shall be parseable, manageable, and manipulable using the same tools used to parse, manage, and manipulate XML documents. 5. SDDs shall be easy to create and document. 6. SDDs shall be easy to use in combination with a parser to provide structural validation of documents. 7. XSD shall include an XML 1.0 DTD defining the structure of SDDs. 8. XSD shall suggest mechanisms for applying SDDs to documents. 9. XSD shall include mechanisms for extending the information included in SDDs, and prescribe limits on the behavior of programs using that extended information. 10. The XSD specification shall be readable and clear. This is a _start_. Changes to language, meaning, order, terminology, etc. are all welcome, as are additions. Ten is traditional, but not required. Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer / Cookies 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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