DTD invented by Microsoft?!

akirkpatrick@ims-global.com
Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:06:09 +0000


The following extract is from the MS white paper on XML. Are they =20
describing
what we all understand as the DTD here or is it something else? If the =20
former,
what are Microsoft doing taking credit for it, I wonder...

> Microsoft has proposed a "Document Type Definition" (DTD) syntax for =20
expressing the schema for an > XML document directly within XML itself, =20
allowing XML data to describe its own structure. Expressing > schemata =20
within XML adds great power to the XML format because it makes it =20
possible for software
> examining certain data to understand its structure without earlier =20
knowledge about the data or its
> meaning.

The section on white-space also seems oversimplified at best.

BTW: I don't have anything against Microsoft, even if their developments
do seem to be all over the place at the moment.

Alfie. =20