AW: Is ist always possible to define a DTD for Well Formed XMLDocume nts?

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>Von: 	Michael Sperberg-McQueen[SMTP:U35395@UICVM.UIC.EDU]
>Gesendet: 	Freitag, 23. Mai 1997 01:49
>An: 	W3C SGML Working Group
>Betreff: 	Re: Is ist always possible to define a DTD for Well Formed
>XMLDocume nts?
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>>The question is in other words: Is it always possible to "upgrade" a WF
>>document to a valid document.  Yes, it is always possible to define a
>>DTD using the contentspec 'ANY'.  But this gives no validity information
>>at all.
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>You started by asking the question "is there always a DTD?"  The answer
>is yes, as you've just demonstrated.  And by the only definition of
>validity that I know, it *does* produce validity information.  The
>document matches the DTD; the document is valid.  Q.E.D.
>
>Now you seem to be wanting to restrict the question to 'good' or
>'real' DTDs.  I know that Tim leans that way, too.  You're chasing
>a chimera.

I did not really ask for a grammar generator. My point was, that there
might
be another level of "well formedness", where an XML can rely on a known
structure
even if the document is not parsed using a DTD, which lead me to the
proposal
of "well structured" documents.

I also donīt want to specify quality levels of DTDs. 
My intention was to make it easier to handle XML documents:

	use a simple parser (non validating parser)
	make application simple and robust by having a limited set of structure
		in this case, the DTD-reference is a kind of "contract"


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