The recent rush to adopt XML can be attributed in part to the hope that the static typing provided by DTDs (or more sophisticated mechanisms such as XML-Schema) will improve the robustness of data ...
The recent rush to adopt XML can be attributed in part to the hope that the static typing provided by DTDs (or more sophisticated mechanisms such as XML-Schema) will improve the robustness of data exchange and processing. However, although XML documents can be checked for conformance with DTDs, current XML processing languages offer no way of verifying that programs operating on XML structures will always produce conforming outputs.
Advertising
