DTDs Only Smell Funny

DTD syntax is not difficult.  DTDs do a lot of things well.  I never  
get confused reading them until someone mixes too many document types  
into the same definition.

But XSDs have pattern facets and those are quite useful particularly  
in systems that use structured identifiers (eg, S1000D data module  
codes).  Prior to 4.0, DTDs were used and errors in the DMCs had to be  
tracked and beaten manually.  With pattern facets, that became the  
validtor's responsibility and life in a batch trust but verify  
identifier system is much better.

It would be even better if the xs:include implementations actually  
implemented the XPath locators so I wouldn't have to use the FOSI to  
trick the rendering engine into skipping over identificationAndStatus  
sections.

Local Vs Global - ID/IDREF aside because one man's globe is another  
man's locale:  using the web as a platform for distributed document  
production is like stacking all the ammo in one location in the  
compound as a means to test the enemy's aim.

len