Re: XML-Data: advantages over DTD syntax?

Michael Leventhal (michael@textscience.com)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:02:38 +0200

At 09:46 AM 9/29/97 -0400, Paul Madsen wrote:
>But what does this gain us? What deficiencies with the DTD formalism does it
>address?
>
>Is it the ability to extend object types so that one class of object is a
>specialization of another more general class?

IMHO, this is a strong reason to chuck DTDs as they now exist. But not
a goal of XML-DATA.

>Do not Architectural forms provide the traditional DTD syntax just that
>ability?

So say some but not really.

Michael Leventhal

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