Sounds good to me. James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Schema just allows more extensive validation and better support of XML > (DTDS are pretty SGMLish). Some advantages are: > > * Support for namespaces > * Rich datatype set (booleans, the usual set of numbers types, > dates, URIs, intervals, ...) > * User defined types. > * "Inheritence" which is really more like refinement. > > There's more, but basically XML schema is a better DTD. > > On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 12:36, Daniel Rall wrote: > > What's the benefit of XML schema? I see the benefit of the DTD as >> something which can immediatley be validated against, and which serves >> as a description of the format of the XML file for developers. >> >> James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Possibly to support existing tools that only deal with DTD? >> > >> > I'm in favor of using schema instead. For backward compatibility there >> > are tools which can generate DTD from schema if we NEED to. >> > >> > On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 10:05, Warner Onstine wrote: >> > > Just curious why we haven't moved to XML Schema yet =). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
