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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > 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. Since XML schemas and other parts of the standards start from an XML DTD, I suspect they will live a while. OTOH: 1. Use is driven in part by tools and in part by the functionality of tools (what do you need to do, what can you do that with). 2. Use is driven by the availability of tools and ease of obtaining them (can i get them when I need them, can i afford to get them). 3. Use is driven by what I know how to do or what I can learn in the time available (do i know i need to know, do i know where to go to find out). A lot of the tools used in day to day industrial computer science are downloaded from www.microsoft.com. No flames; just a fact for many of us. As long as we need to use schemas for tasks such as loading a drop box, can do that with the functions provided in the object model, can get an implemented object model that does that for free, understand that we can do that using an XML schema easily but not so easily with an ISO 8879 DTD, and know that the tools and tutorials for doing that can be found at www.microsoft.com or wherever our local environment predisposes us to look, then I would say the odds of ISO 8879 DTDs development remaining a vital art for practicing markup developers are low. Pity. They are much easier to read. Cool, OTOH, because I need the added functionality of the schemas. Que sera. Be attached to people; not technologies. len 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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