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XML is advertised as a way to define (or "mark up") your data to form meaningful documents or messages. While the DTD or XML schemas work well to define the marking (or tagging) of data, it seems they to do little to define what the content of the data means. For example, the data between a <NAME> start tag and a </NAME> end tag is presumed to be a character string containing a name. The data between an <AMOUNT> start tag and an </AMOUNT> end tag is probably a string of numeric characters representing an amount. However, what does the data between a <MARITALSTATUS> start tag and an </MARITALSTATUS> end tag mean. It can be assumed that the data indicates something about the person's marital status but what do the codes used in the data mean? Maybe 0 means "single", 1 means "married", 2 means "divorced", etc. How can the codes that are used in such cases be indicated in the DTD or schema? Mark Everman Lead System Engineer ACI Worldwide, Inc. (402)390-7756 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/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Please note: New list subscriptions and unsubscriptions are now ***CLOSED*** in preparation for list transfer to OASIS.
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