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Choosing a schema language

There have been many schema language proposals.

W3C proposals:

Non-W3C proposals:

Unlike for many other XML technologies, it has proved difficult to reach a consensus - probably because:

however, most schema languages have many similarities.

We shall look at W3C's DTD and XML Schema proposals and at the DSD proposal developed by BRICS and AT&T.

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