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[Liam Quin <liamquin@i...> on Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:38:17 -0400 (EDT)] > On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Martin Bryan wrote: >> At 19:02 01/10/97 +0200, Jarle Stabell wrote: >>> I think the DTDs-as-instances also benefits new users, why should they have >>> to learn two syntaxes instead of one? >> Because DTD have special rules associated with them, such as those relating >> to case sensitivity, keywords, names, etc. One advantage of having a >> different syntax is that it is easier to remember that these rules apply >> when you are using that syntaz, but do not apply when entering XML coded data. > Charles said that different sorts of information should have different > syntaxes, but in the document a chapter title has the same syntax as an > author's name, a date, an image... and these things may all have different > consumers. Don't forget that full SGML also includes ways of customizing syntax for particular applications: SHORTREF. Instance syntax is good because you always _can_ use it; that doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best syntax to use for any given purpose. Short references at least attempt to fill the void between one-syntax-fits-all and different-syntaxes-for-different-things. -peter -- Peter Newcomb TechnoTeacher, Inc. peter@p... peter@t... http://www.petes-house.rochester.ny.us http://www.techno.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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