Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:59:37PM -0800, Tupshin Harper wrote:
> Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> >Another issue here is that while OpenOffice promises to reasonably
> >handle those files which conform to the various DTDs which it, itself,
> >might have generated -- it does not promise to reasonably handle all
> >files that conform to those DTDs.  Just as the DTDs are a subset of
> >XML-in-general, the documents reasonably handled by OpenOffice is a
> >subset (not a priori an improper or proper subset) of those XML docs
> >that pass the DTDs.
> > 
> >
> If so, then this is an OO bug which should be fixed. If DTDs are 
> insufficient to represent all restrictions of the file format, then XSDs 
> should be used. I very much doubt that XSDs at least have insufficient 
> precision to constrain an XML file such that, if valid, it would be 
> handleable by OO.

You haven't used XML much, have you? It's been a long time since I saw
a non-contrived case where schemas were able to do that.

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