Re: XSchema Question 4: XML 1.0/XSchema interactions

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 30 May 1998 21:32:35

At 16:41 30/05/98 UT, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>In some of Peter's latest examples, he's used 'traditional' general
entities.
>I like the results, but don't know that this belongs in the official spec.
>
>Question:
>Should the use of traditional DTD entity (and other) notation be
encouraged in
>the design, development, and use of XSchemas?

Note - I think 'DTD entity' is too vague - it could cover parameter
entities and general/text entities. There are also subsidiary questions:
- should XSchemas attempt to provide the function of parameter entities
*explicitly*?
- should XSchemas encourage the use of *general/text* entities. Note we
cannot forbid them unless we forbid the use of DTD subsets with XSchemas (Q3).

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>Keep in mind that XSchema 1.0 is not itself providing entity services.

Other than those allowed for any XML document through the use of DTD subsets

P.

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