Re: [xml-dev] Use DTDs!

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

> On 2 May 2016, at 12:49, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Dan Connolly pioneered a simple approach 
>>> using parameter entities, see e.g.
>>> 
>>> https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.dtd
> 
>> And that's not cumbersome?
> 
> Compare DTDs and XSDs for this simple example: 
> 

I wasn't comparing DTDs and XSDs, or defending XSD syntax. I was saying that handling namespaces in DTDs is cumbersome, even if Dan Connolly's method shows that it can be done.

Michael Kay
Saxonica