XSchema 1.0 Advantages

Peter Murray-Rust wrote the following in private email on 30 May 1998, and graciously said I could post it publicly.

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Let's list the advantages of XSchema 1.0 [i.e. direct transliteration from DTD to XSchema and back]:

• can be parsed and used with any XML-aware tool (e.g. SAX can extract elements)
• can be browsed with any XML-aware browser (DTDs cannot)
• can be edited with any XML-aware editor (DTDs cannot)
• can have machine-readable documentation (DTDs can't) [This is the only mandatory extension to the DTD concept].
• can be used to give a list of attributes and their types to support editing
• can be used to give a list of possible children for any element, to support authoring

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