Re: [xml-dev] Datatypes - it's in the contract

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Re: [xml-dev] Datatypes - it's in the contract
Jeni Tennison scripsit:

> So, aside from it being an obvious travesty to shoe-horn them into
> DTDs, could you use the W3C XML Schema data types in a DTD by
> declaring a NOTATION? 

Sure, why not?

>   <!NOTATION xs.date
>              PUBLIC 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes#date'>
> 
>   <!ELEMENT date (#PCDATA)>
>   <!ATTLIST date
>     type NOTATION (xs.date) #FIXED 'xs.date'>
> 
> (Please correct; not being an SGML weenie, I've never using
> NOTATIONs.)

Looks right to me, but I'm not an SGML weenie either.

> I gather that you couldn't use notations to specify the type of
> attributes?

Not any way I know of.

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