- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:31:18 -0800
- To: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- CC: TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
Jonathan Borden wrote: > > Paul Prescod wrote: > > > > > 1 DOCTYPE statement > > 2 top-level namespace > > 3 schema reference declaration > > 4 other root-level declared namespaces > > 5 any attribute on the root element > > 6 anything in the document" > > > > I have not seen a compelling use-case for anything other than 1 and 2. > > Most of the others are just typing conveniences, IMO. > > > > Regular expressions allow types to be defined by any of the above. The > theory and practice has been well described. See XDuce or Murata Makoto's > papers as a starting for some references. So I find an XML document at my desk. Where do I find the regular expression to figure out its type. I'm trying to make XML documents *self-descriptive*. Paul Prescod
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