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Rick Jelliffe writes: >The XML Schema supporters have never made any response to questions >several people have raised over the last year questioning the >practicality (*as a DTD replacement*) of a verbose syntax: who wants to >download a 100K schema for a 1K instance? I'll take a crack at an answer and add a question. A: I'll bet that a lot of 1K instances--maybe even the majority--will be shipped somewhere where the schema is already known, making the schema unnecessary to ship. <emph>For such small documents</emph>, production applications designed to handle arbitrary DTDs on the fly won't be as common as the systems that ship information designed specifically for those systems. (While XML Web browsers will need to read arbitrary DTDs, they're not relevant to this question, given the scarcity of 1K web pages out there.) Q: Where do you get this figure of 100K? I thought I heard a rumor that you were working on a DTD-to-W3C-Schema omle script as a sequel to xml2ddml.xom; I would love to pump some DTDs through that to see some rough figures of the percentage of bloat added. Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@ snee.com> "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii 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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