xml-dev - Re: Must DTDs constrain order?

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

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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