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 Nice. The complaint about DTDs from the XML mavens was that it used a different syntax and was too difficult to read. The response from the SGMLers was that it made it easier to read and distinguish from the markup instance. The VRML designers created a language that was terse, easy to read and type, and essentially the syntax that is rnc. The XMLers and HTMLers looked at it and said that the syntax wasn't 'pointy' so it couldn't use the XML toolsets. The infoset people knew that the abstract model of a real time scene graph was 'mismatched' to the infoset model. Now we are asked to accept that 'syntax' is fundamental to the web architecture although the existence proof of X3D, a standard with a single abstract model and multiple encodings (pointy, curly, and binary real soon now), is there to show it isn't. For those who think 'trendiness' and technical politics aren't driving the perception and architectures of the web, keep these examples in mind, and keep your coding pads close to hand. Different strokes. Don't let them shout down your good ideas. Show 'em the running code, just after you get your successful patent application back. len From: J. David Eisenberg [mailto:catcode@c...] > For now, I want to see why people here seem to believe that it (rnc) is > far superior. From the experience of the people in my introductory XML class, they like the compact syntax because it's easier to read and less to type. Also, it does not look like XML, so there is no confusion about which one is the target document and which one is the grammar. Personally, I am more used to the XML syntax of Relax NG, so I am stil doing a mental translation from XML when I write the compact syntax. The class hasn't done XML Schema, but I have given them dire warnings about it, so their further experiences are going to be skewed. I am in the "is this document valid" camp, not the "what data types does this document contain" crowd. Thus, my reaction to XML Schema is to flee, shrieking. Even easy things seem to be complicated with XSD. Consider the simple example (shown at http://relaxng.org/pipermail/relaxng-user/2003-October/000079.html) which I have used when teaching Relax NG. I just could *not* get it to work in Schema. 
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