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From: Steven R. Newcomb <srn@t...> >The important thing is to go forward, and to avoid going backward, >with respect to the set of semantics that are expressible using DTDs. Personally, I don't think that compatability with what DTDs can model should be any constraint on a schema language, at least as far as element content models. The current content model syntax is * terse * easy to read and write * functional for a wide class of documents * standard and well-understood * part of XML * fragment-friendly (SGML's global inclusions and exclusions have been removed) I would much prefer the schema system to assume to existance of a DTD, and provide the missing parts. For example, 1) a set of data types for attributes and elements 2) use XSL patterns to assert that if one pattern is found, then another pattern must exist. The second in particular gets us out of the content-model approach and into a "partial validation" approach which is more in tune with namespaces. Rick Jelliffe ricko@g... 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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