Re: Migration from DTD to XSchema

Hi Henry,

The answer is yes and no!

There is no equivalent to general entities (&foo;), but that can be left as 
part of an internal DTD in an XML instance document.  (Unless you have a 
controlled environment general entities in external DTDs are best avoided in 
case your instance ends up at a non-validating parser.)  So this use of 
entities is not really in scope for schema.

One use for parameter entities (%foo;) is the defininition of common groups 
of element references, e.g.:

<!ENTITY foo % "(bar | la | tee)">

then

<!ELEMENT MyElement ( a | b | %foo; )>

Schema supports this use with the xs:group construct.

I can't think of other uses of parameter entities are supported.

Conditional inclusion of DTD sections is not supported either.

HTH,

Pete.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Luo" <henryluo@vibrasoft.net>
To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:40 PM
Subject: Migration from DTD to XSchema


>
> Hi, Everyone
>
> I'm new to this list. I'm not sure whether the following question has been 
> asked.
>
> I'm planning to migrate out from DTD to XML Schema on some of our XML 
> files.
> However, I cannot find the equivalent of the DTD Entity declaration in XML 
> Schema, or is there?
>
> So does it mean that I can only convert the element and attribute schema 
> from DTD to XML Schema, and still have to leave entity declarations in 
> DTD?
>
> Henry
>
>
>

Received on Friday, 23 September 2005 07:17:23 UTC