Why does xml.xsd have a DOCTYPE declaration? from Costello, Roger L. on 2016-04-26 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from April 2016)

From: Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:10:48 +0000
To: "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
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Hi Folks,

xml.xsd is at this URL:

http://www.w3.org/2001/03/xml.xsd

Notice that it has a DOCTYPE declaration:

<!DOCTYPE schema SYSTEM "XMLSchema.dtd" PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XMLSCHEMA 200102//EN">

Why?

Are there any plans to remove it?

/Roger

P.S. Shouldn't the DOCTYPE specify xs:schema, like so:

<!DOCTYPE xs:schema SYSTEM "XMLSchema.dtd" PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XMLSCHEMA 200102//EN">

Received on Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:11:18 UTC