Schemas and Other Crucial XML Questions

David Megginson (david@megginson.com)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:15:17 -0400


Sam Gentile writes:

> We have a spec called "XML-Data W3C Note 05 Jan 1998", which discusses
> schemas. It is not clear from the document what a schema is used for or what
> it's purpose is. Is it for designing the XML buffer only or is it read by
> the parser? Is it an extension to XML? Are they even necessary in basic XML?
>
> Also, we have been hearing rumors of a "short" XML notation. Is there one?
> We have a need to reduce the size of our buffers.

Sam:

It might help if you clarified a little. What do you mean by an "XML
buffer"?

All the best,

David

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