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[Sean Mc Grath <digitome@i...> on Sat, 04 Oct 1997 09:22:25 +0100] > However, if developers implemented DTDs via a transformation to XML-Data..... > The XML world would then have the freedom to create > new and better syntaxes for schemata safe in the knowledge that > todays tools that can process XML will process these new syntactic > sugars via transformation to base XML - the mother of all syntaxes. This idea has always been attractive to me; it seems to give everyone the flexibility they want, without imposing unnecessary restrictions. However, unless the transformations are extremely well-designed, XML DTDs generated in this way are not likely to be particularly human-readable (one of the arguments for keeping XML DTDs to begin with). I don't see this as a reason not to use this scheme, I just think that the transformations should be well thought out and well documented, and should have the readability of the generated DTDs as a requirement from the outset. -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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