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[From Chris Maden] >Return-Path: <crism@r...> >Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:36:22 -0400 (EDT) >From: Chris Maden <crism@o...> >To: peter@u... >Subject: Re: XSchema Question 6: Entities > >[Simon St.Laurent] >> Question: Should entity support be provided in XSchema? > >No. General entities should be usable, as XSchema is an XML document. >However, one of the problems with DTDs as they currently exist is >their confusion in declaring both the structure of a document class, >and in declaring entities primarily useful for a particular instance. > >The schema itself is really applicable to a class of documents, and >should restrict itself to such. Don't re-invent the DTD; that's not >useful. If this is successful, XML syntax for entity declarations may >be a useful exercise, but it should be distinct from schemas. > >-Chris >-- ><!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> ><!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" >"<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 ><USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> > Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg 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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