XML DTD for the package configuration file

ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no
Wed Oct 15 14:27:08 EDT 2003


"Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj at microsoft.com> writes:

> XML Schemas are extensible to future additions 
> XML Schemas are richer and more useful than DTDs 
> XML Schemas are written in XML 
> XML Schemas support data types 
> XML Schemas support namespaces

Like XML in general, they also tend to be verbose and noisy, and
difficult to read for a human. So if you want my opinion, I don't like
them much, but then I don't like many of the directions XML is moving
anyway.  I'll accept it as a lost battle, and move on. :-)

-kzm
-- 
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants


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