Re: XML Namespace

Andy Dent (dent@highway1.com.au)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:37:20 +0800

At 6:55 AM +0800 31/8/98, Marcus Carr wrote:
>Although DTDs can be replaced at some stages of the data lifecycle, I don't
>believe that they'll ever be completely replaced unless they're written out of
>the standard
Not finalised yet, but the way that I'm planning for our report-writer to
output data is using DTD's, XML and XSL as per the current standard(s). I
don't want to futz around with namespaces and I'm more interested in a
single document being wholly self-sufficient.

I'm treating XML and XSL as being reasonably well-defined meta protocols
that we can use right now. If other tools remain compliant all well and
good. I've not yet decided if XML-Data is worth pursuing for schema
description - I'd like to hear what Oracle et al have intended along those
lines before believing in it as a standard. Just because Microsoft are
supposedly backing it doesn't fill me with confidence (the games they play
with RTF alone have wasted much of my time).

Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM, Software Designer, A.D. Software, Western Australia
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