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Philip Nye writes: > This means that in David Megginson's layered model, the document > bounces up and down between layers in an inelegant and to my mind > very wasteful way, during the course of its processing. This is a > result of the inflexibility of the DTD or perhaps of the > incompatibility of namespaces. The only reason for bouncing back to the XML layer is to take advantage of the fact that it *does* have a widely-implemented schema language: that's not a design problem with DTDs or Namespaces; it's just a (very kludgy) workaround because of the fact that the W3C's schema standards are still under development for the Namespaces layer. Besides, even if the W3C XML Schema WG released a schema REC tomorrow (which won't happen), and we all agreed that it was suitable, we wouldn't necessarily be any better off. After all, XML-Dev developed the DDML spec (which would also solve this problem) but no-one has decided to implement it yet, even though the list's membership consists almost entirely of developers. Having a spec is no guarantee of having implementations. 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...)
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