Modeling XML data
THE GOOD NEWS is that Office 11 supports XML Schema. The bad
news is that XML Schema has been described even by XML experts as
"confusing," "impenetrable," "fuzzy," and "as user-friendly as a
stick in the eye." A successor to the SGML/XML DTD (Standard
Generalized Markup Language/XML document type definition), XML
Schema is a language for writing rules that constrain the kinds of
elements that can appear in documents and the ways in which they
can be sequenced, grouped, and nested. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com.]
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