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It all depends why you want to measure it. The metric is presumably supposed to be a predictor of something, and you need to know what. From my viewpoint, a DTD is complex if it makes extensive use of parameter entities - but from another viewpoint, it's much simpler than the equivalent DTD with all the PEs fully expanded. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Mattio Valentino [mailto:mattio.valentino@g...] > Sent: 16 July 2007 22:01 > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Measure the complexity of one DTD versus another? > > I was asked an interesting question on Friday. Is there a > way to measure the complexity of our new DTD versus our old DTD? > > I haven't come up with anything too concrete. Our new DTD > has far fewer tags, but it's more rigid. Based on that, I'd > say the new is less complex. Unfortunately, I think the real > issue is that because it's more rigid, it's harder for > off-shore companies to convert large quantities of documents > to the new DTD simply because it doesn't accept as much > "garbage" tagging. > > Has anyone else answered such a question? How did you do it? > > Thanks, > Mattio > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by > OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To > minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... List archive: > http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php >
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