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RE: Wikipedia on XML
- From: "Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- To: "'Kurt Cagle'" <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:08:25 -0500
Audience considered, DTD’s aren’t
the basis for XML. IMO, they are a system device from SGML that XML carried
over in context of the singular specification itself. At the time, they
ensured validation as a system feature would be preserved until other means
were formulated and formally published. It bridged a perceived chasm.
So a decision made in a time for the needs
of that time. Still relevant? I dunno. The usual cliché is you never know
how used or useful a feature is in a standard until you try to take it out.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Cagle
[mailto:kurt.cagle@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:10
PM
To: Len Bullard
Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold; Michael
Kay; Tim Bray; XML Developers List
Subject: Re: Wikipedia
on XML
Keep
in mind audience here. I'd be inclined rather to indicate that an XML document
is a valid SGML document as well, that for this reason there is an implicit
assumption that a DTD exists for any created XML document type, but that
current usage is increasingly to keep such DTD's implicit in favor of more
explicit definitions by other schemas.
This keeps the primacy of place for DTDs as the foundation of XML in theory
while largely ignoring their existence in practice.
Kurt Cagle
Managing Editor
http://xmlToday.org
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net> wrote:
Elliotte is right. The DTD formally ensures that
well-formedness is not the
single possible basis of acceptance of an XML instance. Preferences for
how
that is documented seem to break down when describing why that is necessary.
len
No, I
don't think that's sufficient. FDTDs are fundamentally
integrated into the design of an XML parser. They are not optional
pieces one can ignore. Nor are they just a schema language either.
They have noticeable effects on a document's infoset even in the
absence of validation. Yes, in hindsight, this was a mistake; but it's
not one we can ignore or sweep under the rug, much as we might wish
things were otherwise. :-(
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