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Standardizing such a thing makes me extremely nervous at this point. The value of a standard is only that it is standard - xsdl hasn't even been finalized and we're already talking about bifurcating it. Not that I'm surprised - at the very beginning of the schema effort I compared our task to C++, which ended up with three languages - K&R C (viz. DTDs), C++ (viz. xsdl) and ANSI C (viz. xsdl--, perhaps DTDs plus datatypes). But at least C++ was up and running _before_ the ANSI C effort was underway. It is certainly possible, within your own schema, to turn off most of the DTD++ features and end up with the ANSI C analog. But please do that with an xsdl parser, rather than trying to immediately standardize some intermediate language. And try working with the language as is. You might be surprised. Matthew > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill la Forge [mailto:b.laforge@j...] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 5:59 PM > To: Edd Dumbill; Roger L. Costello; Dave Hollander > Cc: xml-dev@x...; www-xml-schema-comments@w...; > Schneider,John C.; > Cokus,Michael S.; Ripley,Michael W. > Subject: Re: XML Schemas: Needs Marketing? > > > From: Dave Hollander <dmh@c...> > > PS. Regarding "heavy" schemas: I do not see why someone could not > > use a sub-set of XML Schemas to achieve a easy to learn and use > > schema language. If anyone has ideas on this application profile, > > let me know. > > Such a sub-set could have tremendous utility, both for > simplified implementations > and as a means of learning the larger schema. > > I think it should be possible, though I have no idea of the > effort required, to > define a standard subset roughly equivalent to DTDs. But I > suspect such a > standard would have great value. > > Bill la Forge >
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