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Bullard, Claude L (Len) writes: > What is interesting to me is that this many years after the > specification of XML, all of the noise about relying on > well-formedness and self-description, and the general public > distain for DTDs, how many people are still using DTDs and who they > are. You might be distorting that past discussion a bit. A lot of people argued in favour of the benefits of DTD-less processing, but I don't think that many disputed the benefit of a DTD or other schema on the authoring side. For me, a DTD or other schema on the processing side is little more than a stylesheet for transforming XML documents into a boolean value (valid/not-valid). That can sometimes be very useful for specific types of applications, but the whole thing could use some serious demystification -- on the production side, schemas are really no more important than any other kind of stylesheet. All the best, David -- David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/
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