- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:16:52 -0500
- To: MarkH@i2.co.uk, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
- Cc: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org
MarkH@i2.co.uk writes:
> Has anyone else noticed how much more readable DTDs look all of a
sudden?
>
> And, is this heracy?
>
> :-)
Following up on Henry's quite comprehensive response, keep in mind that
perhaps _the_ most fundamental goal for schema is to use XML itself to
represent schemas. From the "Origins and Goals" portion of the XML 1.0
Recommendation [1]:
"Terseness in XML markup is of minimal importance."
Not surprisingly, since we use XML 1.0, XML schemas are considerably more
verbose than DTDs. This is a significant factor, though surely not the
only factor, contributing to the reduced "readability" of schemas. As
Henry eloquently explains, use of XML gets us quite a bit in return.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-origin-goals
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