Re: [xml-dev] Wikipedia on XML

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@ibiblio.org>]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Michael Kay<mike@saxonica.com> wrote:

> Perhaps the notion of "metalanguage" or "language in which one can define
> markup languages for documents" is over-emphasising the role of the DTD,
> when one of the major contributions of XML is to make the DTD optional.

I don't think either "metalanguage" or "language in which one can
define markup languages for documents" implies a DTD. But perhaps we
should instead say, "syntax in which one can create markup languages
for documents". "Creating" does not bring to mind the concept of a
schema quite so readily as "defining".

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@ibiblio.org