Re: XML-Data: advantages over DTD syntax? (and some wishes)

Rick Jelliffe (ricko@allette.com.au)
Sat, 4 Oct 1997 19:29:12 +1000


> From: Sean Mc Grath <digitome@iol.ie>

> [Rick Jelliffe]
> >
> >But the proposed syntax in XML-data has a different and extended
> >functionality compared to XML's declaration syntax. So rather than having
> >two (notional) simple parsers, you have a single parser that is more
> >complicated.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand this. Why is the parser more complicated?

I am assuming that the XML-data parser makes use of the things declared in
some way. So it is more complicated than just a simple XML instance parser
that only looks at well-formedness.

Rick Jelliffe