Schemas and Other Crucial XML Questions

[Sam Gentile]

We mean just the XML data coming into the parser (coming over the wire). I
guess we could call it an XML file.


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From: owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
David Megginson
Sent: Friday, August 07, 1998 10:15 PM
To: Sam Gentile
Cc: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Subject: Schemas and Other Crucial XML Questions


Sam Gentile writes:

 > We have a spec called "XML-Data W3C Note 05 Jan 1998", which discusses
 > schemas. It is not clear from the document what a schema is used for or
what
 > it's purpose is. Is it for designing the XML buffer only or is it read by
 > the parser? Is it an extension to XML? Are they even necessary in basic
XML?
 >
 > Also, we have been hearing rumors of a "short" XML notation. Is there
one?
 > We have a need to reduce the size of our buffers.

Sam:

It might help if you clarified a little.  What do you mean by an "XML
buffer"?


All the best,


David

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