RE: DTD invented by Microsoft?!

akirkpatrick@ims-global.com
Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:09:22 +0000


Could someone explain what "instance syntax for type definitions"
means. Thanks!

ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk[SMTP:PC @INTERNET {ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk}]
writes:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------=
=20
-------------
Len writes:

> This appears to be the long awaited and somewhat dreaded
> attempt to use instance syntax for type definitions. It
> is an idea that has been floated several times on the
> XML WG list and generally resisted.

It was resisted, correctly in my view, as a component of XML-lang
itself, and in the decision the point was made several times that the
right place for this was one level up, as a generic application.
That's what the schema proposal in the XML-data document is aimed at
providing.