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Bullard, Claude L (Len) writes:
> What is interesting to me is that this many years after the
> specification of XML, all of the noise about relying on
> well-formedness and self-description, and the general public
> distain for DTDs, how many people are still using DTDs and who they
> are.
You might be distorting that past discussion a bit. A lot of people
argued in favour of the benefits of DTD-less processing, but I don't
think that many disputed the benefit of a DTD or other schema on the
authoring side.
For me, a DTD or other schema on the processing side is little more
than a stylesheet for transforming XML documents into a boolean value
(valid/not-valid). That can sometimes be very useful for specific
types of applications, but the whole thing could use some serious
demystification -- on the production side, schemas are really no more
important than any other kind of stylesheet.
All the best,
David
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David Megginson, david@megginson.com, http://www.megginson.com/
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