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>> The answer, obviously, is to shed any pretense of DTDs being the basic >> XML schema mechanism. > >For declaring multi-namespace documents, yes. They still have at least >an interim role in validating single namespace documents and in defining >the building blocks from which a multi-namespace schema can be >constructed. And, I think that in the glorious "Schema Age" to come, it might be nice to be able to validate instances of your schema itself using a DTD? Since so much will depend upon the correctness of the schema built, having it be known correct will be nice. I figure that, in the end, there will be tools that let people build their own schemas and then documents that deal with them. So having a cheap and easy way to validate the schema will be nice. But, of course, if the schema itself uses namespaces then a DTD won't be useful for validating instances of it either (in which case I guess you incestuously validate it with a description of itself in itself.) And of course there is the ever looming issue of entities, the separation of content and structural description. I'd kind of hate personally for DTDs (and its separate syntax) to have to hang around just to deal with this issue. If we have to keep DTDs for those reasons, I'd prefer to fix DTDs so that at least they could be used for simpler namespace based validation. Otherwise, I'd argue for throwing them out and coming up with a way to deal with entities within a single, consistent syntax. Then again, I'm just a guy :-) 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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