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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada Component Registry proposal
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:48:06 +0000 (UTC)
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Robert C. Leif <rleif@rleif.com> wrote:
:    
:    Why are you using a DTD, which is the antithesis of Ada? A schema which
: is the semantic equivalent (translation) of a collection of Ada types would
: be far more appropriate. 

I think before considering whether the C/Unix oriented Schema type
library is a restriction or an improvement, it is, first of all,
necessary to consider which Elements should be in the registry,
then their relations, and then whether an XML-DTD schema, or a
RELAX NG schema, or a Schema schema is more useful.


Georg