Moving to XML

More about Schemas [i]: benefits

• The schema language is itself an XML laguage, so schemas can be parsed with standard XML tools
  • DTDs can't
• You can specify rules for the content of elements and attributes with much finer granularity than with DTDs
  • You can specify that an attribute must be a number
  • You can specify minimum and maximum values for an attribute
  • You can specify regular expression patterns the attribute must match

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