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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: What are Schemas For?

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On Saturday 26 October 2002 12:21, tblanchard@mac.com wrote:
> On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 08:24  PM, Paul Prescod wrote:
> > Maybe it is all _you_ need. But I've been using schemas (was: DTDs)
> > for more than eight years so please trust me when I say that _I_ need
> > them.
>
> Really?!?!!?!  XML 1.0 first edition was published in 1998.  Surely
> DTD's don't predate that.  So I'm not buying that statement either.

A good vigorous debate is one thing, but you seem to be willing to make a 
fool of yourself to try to win a point.

According to _The XML Handbook_, published in 1998 by Prentice Hall and 
authored by Charles F. Goldfarb (the inventor of SGML) and Paul Prescod (!), 
the first DTD was published in a 1978 IBM manual written by Goldfarb and 
derived from work he and others had done in the late '60s.




 

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