• From: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• To: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@g...>
• Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:17:11 -0500

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 01:19:54PM +0530, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
> > As Tim and others said, DTDs are in the XML specification for
> > historical reasons.
> 
> I appreciate this. It's good that, something like this existed in the
> early days of XML (that was a nice innovation, in the absence of
> anything else, as we speak of XSD and other validation technologies,
> as of today).

Just to be clear, XML was designed so that every DTD-valid document
was also a valid SGML document; we had some 10 years experience
with SGML deployment, and that's where DTDs came from.

Liam

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