• From: "James K. Tauber" <jtauber@j...>
• To: <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 22:50:43 +0800

Tim Bray wrote:
>
> I kind of think that the thing people have in mind in this group when
> they say "schema" is "expressions of syntactic constraints which can
> be verified mechanically" or some such.

So is a schema a function that maps a document to a truth value?

Is additional information about element types beyond content and attribute
constraints (eg linking to ontologies) outside the scope of schemata
themselves?

James

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