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- From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
- To: XML Developers' List <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 21:40:46 +0100 (BST)
On Fri, 28 May 1999, David Megginson wrote:
> David LeBlanc writes:
>
> (on DTDs)
>
> > Ok, now i'm confused David - your second statement seems to
> > contradict your first statement.
>
> If you give me a single, well-formed XML document, I can *always*
> write a DTD that describes its structure.
As an aside, might be worth mentioning OCLC's Fred project here.
http://www.oclc.org/fred/
Excerpt from http://www.oclc.org/fred/docs/about-fred.html
As an electronic publisher, OCLC receives tagged text from several data
sources. Often, this tagged text is not valid SGML since it does not
have or conform to a Document Type Definition (DTD). Despite this, OCLC
must build data transformations, databases, and interfaces for this
tagged text.
To address the lack of DTDs, Fred can automatically build DTDs from
tagged text. [...]
Dan
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