Re: [xml-dev] ID/IDREF is evil

[Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de>]

I would add a fourth:

(d) DTD is an anachronism - a response to a pre-XSD situation.

DTD has no perspective of further development. Technology has taken another path (XSD, and DTD-agnostic XDM as the foundation of XML processing). I think the main reason for DTD usage is inertia.

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Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> schrieb am So, 16.2.2014:
 
 I avoid DTDs if I can for three reasons:
 
 (a) I can never remember the syntax
 (b) I can never understand the errors when I get it wrong
 (c) they don't survive XSLT transformation.
 
 Michael Kay
 Saxonica