RE: Schemas and Other Crucial XML Questions

Sam Gentile (samg@fundtech.com)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:20:57 -0400


We mean just the XML data coming into the parser (coming over the wire). I
guess we could call it an XML file.

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From: owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
David Megginson
Sent: Friday, August 07, 1998 10:15 PM
To: Sam Gentile
Cc: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject: Schemas and Other Crucial XML Questions

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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