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At 01:29 PM 7/16/99 -0400, DuCharme, Robert wrote: >As far as I can tell, the W3C XML Schema proposal includes all the >features of XML 1.0 DTDs, so it should be possible to automate migration >of DTDs. Whether W3C XML Schemas completely replace XML 1.0 DTDs after >the Schema proposal becomes a Recommendation is a tougher question. Nothing in XML seems to happy as quickly as I once thought it would. I'd say DTDs have at least another few years of active use in them. I suspect (though it isn't certain) that while they're less powerful than schemas, they involve less processing as well. For some situations, even 'non-legacy' ones, that may insure a very long life. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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