[osis-core] Request for OSIS "unofficial" DTD

[Kirk Lowery]

Todd Tillinghast wrote:

 > I see a problem with having two official "statements" of the
 > standard (DTD and schema).

I understand. That's why I called it an "unofficial" DTD.

 > The danger would be that people could create documents that are
 > valid with respect to the DTD and not be valid with respect to the
 > schema.

Hmmm? Let me expose my ignorance. If the DTD is generated from the
schema, and if one makes the appropriate changes in a document in the
header to reference the schema and not the DTD, why would it not be valid?

 > To make things worse the XML documents created relative to the DTD
 > would reference the DTD and not the official schema, which would
 > lead to two different standards in practice.

Ummm. Good point, especially if it is unavoidable that a 
DTD-conforming document would not be a schema-conforming document.

 > I could make you a DTD for EVERY release of the schema using XML
 > Spy for your use with DTD only tools, but I think we should resist
 > making a DTD officially available.

Well, if using such a DTD will make it invalid with reference to the
schema, then I can't see much point it using it much myself in
authoring even transitional documents.

<sigh>
I guess I'll continue to search (and wait) for real schema-supporting
authoring tools for XML documents...I'm experimenting with Topologi
now....
</sigh>

Blessings,

Kirk
--
Kirk E. Lowery, Ph.D.
Director, Westminster Hebrew Institute
Adjunct Professor of Old Testament
Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia

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