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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:22:28 -0400 (EDT)
David Megginson writes:
> DTDs do two things very well -- they let you validate the surface
> structure of an XML 1.0 document, and they provide production rules to
> help with the creation of XML 1.0 documents. They could be extended
> to do lots of other kinds of things, but I hardly see the point (ISO
> 8859-1 could have been extended to include markup, for example, but it
> would have been a bad idea).
Note that they do two additional things rather more poorly: they
specify the physical makeup of the document, and they provide default
values for attributes.
All the best,
David
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