[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: DTD confusion (was Re: Lotsa laughs)
Ok, now i'm confused David - your second statement seems to contradict your first statement. Dave LeBlanc At 10:21 AM 5/28/99 -0400, you wrote: >John Cowan writes: > > > Lisa Rein scripsit: > > > > > I thought that an XML v. 1.0-compliant application needed to be > > > definable using a DTD (at this point) -- even if you didn't necessarily > > > write one up for it -- that it *should* be possible to do so for any XML > > > v 1.0-compliant application syntax. (like SMIL etc.) Is this NOT > > > correct? > > > > That is not correct. As long as the XML documents are well-formed, > > it is perfectly fine for there to be no DTD that describes them > > both. Instead, you can use any of the schema proposals, or English > > prose, or French alexandrines, or what you will.... > >In fact, Lisa and John are both right, but they're slightly at >cross-purposes: > >1. Any XML *document* that cannot be described by a DTD is not > well-formed (I challenge anyone on the list to give me an example > to the contrary). > >2. An XML *document type* may contain restraints or allow structures > that would be difficult or even impossible to model in a DTD. > >The XML document type describes the characteristics that group certain >XML documents into a class -- these characteristics cannot always be >described using a DTD, and, in fact, may make the writing of a general >DTD for the whole class impossible. > > >All the best, > > >David > >-- >David Megginson david@m... > http://www.megginson.com/ > >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...) > > 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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