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RE: DTD Files !
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: DTD Files !
- From: Eileen Kinley <e dot kinley at calian dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 10:54:32 -0400
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [SMTP:davidc@nag.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 9:56 AM
> To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: DTD Files !
>
>
> > Although if you wanted to restrict the xml author to a certain
> > schema, you really could not do it without the DTD.
>
> Why on earth not?
> You just change the instructions and/or tools slightly.
[<ek>] Instructions are not always followed. Some existing tools
will provide feedback to the author *automatically* if they create an
invalid structure.
> Rather than use a DTD and a validating parser, you use a non validating
> parser and arrange that every document has to go through a validating
> XSL stylesheet.
[<ek>] Typically *outside* of their authoring environment - much
less efficient.
> You can do far more checks in XSL than you can do in a
> DTD.
>
Eileen
Eileen Kinley
Calian
>
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