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   Re: Must DTDs constrain order?

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  • From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
  • To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
  • Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 06:53:20 -0400 (EDT)

Eric van der Vlist writes:

 > I begin to think that XML vocabularies should take example on XML
 > itself and that when designing a vocabulary one should start by
 > defining the infoset (the data model), a canonical form (a very
 > strict syntax) before defining one (or more if needed) "user XML
 > syntax(es)" and canonization algorithms with reference
 > implementation(s).

I know that people hate this distinction, but for data-oriented XML, I
agree that the data model should be designed first, independently of
XML.  For document-oriented XML, on the other hand, the XML markup
often is the model.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david@megginson.com
           http://www.megginson.com/




 

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