December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
22h 3m
English
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Traditionally, validating an XML document has required the use of Document Type Definitions (DTD), which were inherited from SGML. Although DTDs are useful in establishing document structure for validation purposes, they have considerable weaknesses. XML Schema is a technology created by Microsoft that implements a subset of a W3C note aimed at improving DTDs. This W3C note actually describes an alternate approach to DTDs that is much more powerful than DTDs. XML Schema is itself implemented as an XML vocabulary, which makes it easier to learn and use than DTDs. The real significance ...
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