SDD Specifications Document

Jean-Marc Vanel jmvanel at FREE.FR
Thu Feb 24 09:56:01 CET 2000


Bob Morris a écrit :

> (a).On theoretical and practical grounds, DTD's
> are now understood to be a weak way to describe the schemata
>
> (b). Mixed content (a mixture of text and elements) is a really
> bad idea,

Yes and yes; DTD is an old technology from SGML, if we want a standard
for at least 10 years, it's better to avoid it.

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