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• Subject: Re: DTD and Schema Teasers
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:35:19 -0800
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> Two only slightly related questions:
>
> 1.  Why did XML keep the requirement for deterministic models?

If I'm not mistaken, it was so that every valid XML document
would also be a valid SGML document (given a suitable SGML
declaration, that is).

Since XML doesn't have start-tag omission, deterministic
content models aren't _strictly_ necessary.  (Actually,
they're not strictly necessary for SGML either, you'd just
need to rephrase the way start-tag inference is specified
in the Standard.)


(P.S. *Many* thanks for starting an actual XML-related thread!)


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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