• To: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
• Subject: Re: Come On, DTD, Come On! Thoughts on DSDL Part 9
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:39:43 -0700
• Cc: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@l...>
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"G. Ken Holman" wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Yes, but early thoughts are that we don't want to "break" DTDs, so we will
> look at trying to come up with conventions of use of existing DTD syntax
> before introducing new syntax and/or declarations.

There have been at least two attempts to add datatypes to DTDs without
breaking the syntax. Lextype and DT4DTD. You're baking a cake. Please do
not be afraid to break some eggs!

 Paul Prescod

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