• To: "K. Ari Krupnikov" <ari@c...>
• Subject: Re: Whitepapers and ScreenShots of Office 11 XML Features
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:54:52 -0800
• Cc: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>, xml-dev@l...
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K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:

> Of course we did. All I was saying was that "view source" is no
> substitute for "read DTD".

On the contrary.  View Source is essential.  Read DTD is nice-to-have. 
And for something reasonably complex, like for example DocBook or HTML, 
in my experience it's *easier* to learn by View Source.  Anyhow, I'd 
rather have a program read the DTD for me and tell me where I got the 
instance wrong.  Reading moderately-complex DTDs with lots of parameter 
entities can be immensely difficult. -Tim

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