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On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 01:22, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > At 4:36 PM +0200 4/9/04, Henrik Martensson wrote: > > > > Systems that cannot deal sensibly with the > extensibility of XML are broken. > i think it depends on the context. there's ample evidence on this list, let alone elsewhere of two uses of dtds and schemas - one as the starting point of what could be and to cope with, as you describe, a variety of markups, just getting what you want. at the other end are applications that really want well formed and valid documents because the application wants it that way. i'm a bit agnostic at the moment on this. however i do have "end user" situations where i want them to enter valid data. option b is to use the dbms to do this. not ideal in the largely text/document situations i'm looking at. and i also take advantage of well formed, but not valid to allow extensible interpretations at the "system" level. surely this is common usage examples. rick
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