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Tried to read the article but "We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. It seems your browser doesn't support them and thi
by throwaway_pdp09 7y ago
Tried to read the article but
"We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. It seems your browser doesn't support them and this affects the site functionality."
Yes indeed, no cookies = no article, displaying text apparently being 'functionality'.
Anwyay, going from your quoted extract, I agree XML schemas are one of the most revoltingly complex and awful things I've ever seen, and badly at that, but to claim DTDs as being "a perfectly fine solution" is just ridiculous. DTDs give an overall structure, not any kind of typing that XSDs give. DTDs are a crude start, not an endpoint.
Lord how I got to hate XSDs and XSLT. XML by itself is fine (in the right place) and I like it but it seemed to become the core of a everyone-lost-your-sanity frenzy. It was mad, very wasteful and I'm glad it's all over.
Edit: only XSLT could be so godawful as to require a new mechanism to pass parameters. https://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/03/24/tr.html https://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/03/24/tr.html