- From: Digitome Ltd. <digitome@iol.ie>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 07:56:40 +0100
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>That said... I'm not certain that non-8879 "validating XML >processors" will come into widespread use. If they don't, >I'm starting to be convinced that full SGML should be used >for many "XML DTD" purposes, with the exception of a few gotchas >that fall far short of the restrictions that XML >places on DTDs. This prediction sure has a ring of truth about it! A project we have on here needs structural checks that are hard to capture naturally in a DTD. We concluded that if we go ahead with that project using XML we will use non-validating XML parse followed by custom, project-specific semantic parse. This semantic parse would naturally subsume the structural checks we *could* have performed with a validating parse but what would be the point? We need our own layer of semantics anyway. It seems natural to combine the two. Sean Sean Mc Grath sean@digitome.com Digitome Electronic Publishing http://www.digitome.com
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