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Steven R. Newcomb scripsit: > I think the only major thing you left out was the possibility of > exchanging content with the value of an attribute, and vice versa. Ah, I must look further. But XAF doesn't support this feature, I think. > I think your formulation, while correct, could be worded a bit more > understandably, albeit less succinctly. Here is an attempt to do > that: Thanks. > John, I'd be interested to know why you say that "meta DTD" is an > erroneous (or perhaps misleading?) appellation for DTDs that are used > as the formal expression of the syntactic constraints of base > architectures. Because "meta-" primarily refers to a higher (not just alternative) level of description. The term "meta-DTD" suggests a DTD which describes DTDs, just as "metalanguage" is a language used to talk about some other language (the "object language"). > Assuming you're right about that (and I'd have to > guess that, having read your formidable contributions to this list, > you probably are) I'd also be interested to know if you have a better > alternative term for "DTD or other schema used as the formal syntactic > model of a base architecture". "Architectural DTD"? -- John Cowan cowan@c... I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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