Re: XSchema: ease of use (design goal 5)

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Tue, 02 Jun 1998 12:49:13 -0400


Lisa Rein wrote:

> > >human beings will find them [XSchemas] painful to write by
> > hand, due to their great redundancy compared to DTDs.
>
> If this is true, why do we want to use XSchemas again :-) ?

Because, unlike DTDs in SGML syntax, they can be parsed using the
same facilities used to parse XML document instances.

And like that.

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