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Re: dtds, schemas, xhtml, and multimedia technologies

• To: abcoates@T...
• Subject: Re: dtds, schemas, xhtml, and multimedia technologies
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:39:28 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (xml-dev)
• In-reply-to: <E18BI2W-0004R6-00@m...> from "Anthony B. Coates" at Nov 11, 2002 05:07:00 PM

Anthony B. Coates scripsit:

> For the 80/20 things that most users need, W3C XML Schema is no harder
> to teach than DTDs, if you are using a decent WYSIWYG Schema editor like
> XML Authority or XML Spy.  Let's get away from the olde world charm of
> fireside discussions over port debating which schema language is easiest
> to write and maintain using vi or Notepad.  The world has moved on.

XML 1.0, goal 9 (reaffirmed in the XML 1.1 draft):

		XML shall be easy to create.

That doesn't say "XML shall be easy to create with buggy, expensive,
and proprietary tools", y'know.

-- 
What is the sound of Perl?  Is it not the       John Cowan
sound of a [Ww]all that people have stopped     jcowan@r...
banging their head against?  --Larry            http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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