Re: cvs commit: jakarta-turbine-maven/src/dtd project.dtd

[Daniel Rall <dl...@finemaltcoding.com>]

Sounds good to me.

James Taylor <jt...@4lane.com> 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 <jt...@4lane.com> 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 =).

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