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Measure the complexity of one DTD versus another?

• From: "Mattio Valentino" <mattio.valentino@g...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:00:34 -0400

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

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