• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 11:59:05 -0700

Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:
> From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>

> > Ronald Bourret scripsit:
> >
> > > 1) Is there any well-formed XML that a DTD can't model? I can't think of
> > > any (namespace issues aside).
> 
> > I don't understand the point of this question.
> 
> Neither do I.

David Cleary listed the ability to model any well-formed XML document as
one of the requirements of XML Schemas. I hadn't ever thought of this as
an explicit goal for either DTDs or XML Schemas and just wanted to
confirm that DTDs could do this. The answer is:
a) yes, and
b) in many cases, useless.

-- Ron

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