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David Megginson wrote: > Would you require schema processing, then, for object exchange (or in > other words, would there be no equivalent of the DTD-less XML > document)? Yes and no. A schema-less XML document is absolutely fine for most things. If you need object semantics then you need a schema. The good news is that, for things like metadata attached to documents, the number of schemas will most likely be small and well-known. If I have the schema for the Dublin Core on my machine already, for example, then I can interpret any instance based on the Dublin Core. Obviously the knowledge about the schema can be compiled into specific classes for processing instances based on this schema, as I already mentioned. This will no doubt be necessary for efficiency; it would be unrealistic to reparse the schema every time an instance needs to be processed. Cheers, Matthew 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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