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From: Don Park <donpark@q...> >It is my view that the XML Schema will win over after six months to a year >of further confusion over schema format and continued maturation of the W3C >XML Schema spec. Uncertainty in the dynamics of change in this area seems >rather low, at least to me. I remember seeing a headline from a PC magazine in about 1991 saying "UNIX is dead". But here we are in the late 1990s and Linux installations (supposedly) are more than Win98 (in West Europe). Uncertainty in the dynamics of change is prudent. On the Internet, there are hard limits (in particular from bandwidth) which even the most assured comments from company spin doctors (I don't mean Don here) cannot overcome. The XML Schema supporters have never made any response to questions several people have raised over the last year questioning the practicality (*as a DTD replacement*) of a verbose syntax: who wants to download a 100K schema for a 1K instance? This size difference alone means that XML Schemas will often be used in different circumstances to DTDs: the tradeoffs are different. XML Schemas cannot "win" because they run in a different race to DTDs. Rick Jelliffe 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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