Re: Agenda item: XSD and DTD for CPP/CPA

[christopher ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

The DTD was non-normative anyway since it cannot represent the
full expression of the XML Schema. The xsd will need to be updated,
but I concur with the sentiment that the DTD not be dropped just
yet.

Cheers,

Chris

James Bryce Clark wrote:
> 
> At 09:22 AM 7/20/01, Tony Weida wrote:
> >Since XML Schema is now a formal W3C Recommendation, I propose that we
> >consider dropping the DTD from the next major version of our spec.
> >
> >Tony
> 
> Just a preliminary reaction -- Isn't there a substantial non-behemoth user,
> and would-be-adopter, base with a substantial legacy dependency DTDs?  You
> might not want to bail on those people right away.    In spite of the
> superiority and inevitability of schema, I'm not sure the upgrade path
> looks easy to them.
> 
> Jamie
> 
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