Re: [Refdb-users] RisX import

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > This is a bit of a red herring though.  It is true that there is little 
 > support for RNG yet in XML editors, but this is not much of an issue 
 > when you consider that Trang allows for reliable conversion to DTDs and 
 > XML Schema, both of which are supported in editors.  And editor support 
 > will come in time.
 > 
 > The reason people are migrating development to RNG is precisely this 
 > power and flexibility.  DocBook in the future will be written in RNG, 
 > but this certainly does not mean they won't be releasing DTD versions 
 > of it.  Likewise with Open Office. Word supports import of arbitrary 
 > XML, but only if defined against a Schema; likewise almost surely to be 
 > the case with the next major version of OOo.
 > 

That's another red herring ;-). If you have to rely on the conversion
of your Schema to a DTD in order to use it for coding documents
anyway, you can't use any of the cool features that provide "power and
flexibility". And if Trang allows the conversion of DTD->Schema as
well, then why should I bother now to write in Schema as long as my
editor doesn't support it? I can convert it anytime as soon as it
does.

regards,
Markus

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