> I'd like to here some opinions on DTDs though? So > far we've been very anti DTD for the server. Does > this make sense or should more attention be paid there?
We use DTDs. And although I came from the SGML world I'm not sure it matters. The issue of validation depends on the application. Sometimes we validate against the DTD and sometimes we don't. I'm not convinced this function needs to be in the server. We have not used XML Schemas. When the data gets to the point where we need to have more specific typing (such as numbers, dates, etc.) Schemas may still be a hard sell. Right now I'd much rather use a programming language to model and manipulate data types. We use XML for the descriptive and/or declarative information portions of our applications. I don't want XML to solve (or attempt to solve) all my problems, just some of them. It's already doing this and I can easily combine an XML representation with other representations. Rob
