Re: How to get the 1st element in DTDD

[Murali Mani <mani@CS.UCLA.EDU>]

Thanks. actually that makes lot of sense... especially your schema
describes an inventory of lot of stuff, even quite unrelated..??

but actually do you have a concrete example when this might actually
happen... that will be good...

thanks and regards - murali.

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Marcus Carr wrote:

>
> Murali Mani wrote:
>
> > Anyways, though I have always believed that the schema should specify the
> > possible root types, people have always said against this, I have always
> > waited for one good reason for not specifying the root of the document in
> > the schema, but unfortunately, I do not think I have seen any... I will
> > keep waiting for some good reason ...
>
> There are two very distinct phases to creating an XML dataset - one
> involves the analysis and specification of the eventual model (via the
> schema or DTD) and the other is the creation of the data to populate
> the model. These tasks are often carried out by very different people
> - in many cases, they won't even belong to the same organisation. Why
> would you presume that the analysts so completely understands the
> tools and people who will be creating the data, that they are capable
> of dictating what possible root elements will be adequate for the
> task? Documents are often compilations of XML fragments created in
> isolation - if data creators couldn't specify the root arbitrarily,
> they would have to either be able to modify the schema or create (and
> maintain) compliant subset schemas. Neither of these are appropriate
> in a production environment.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Marcus Carr                      email:  mrc@allette.com.au
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