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DTDs versus XML schema: a practical study

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Van den Bussche, Jan Neven, Frank Bex, Geert Jan
Abstract	Among the various proposals answering the shortcomings of Document Type Definitions (DTDs), XML Schema is the most widely used. Although DTDs and XML Schema Definitions (XSDs) differ syntactically, they are still quite related on an abstract level. Indeed, freed from all syntactic sugar, XML Schemas can be seen as an extension of DTDs with a restricted form of specialization. In the present paper, we inspect a number of DTDs and XSDs harvested from the web and try to answer the following questions: (1) which of the extra features/expressiveness of XML Schema not allowed by DTDs are effectively used in practice; and, (2) how sophisticated are the structural properties (i.e. the nature of regular expressions) of the two formalisms. It turns out that at present real-world XSDs only sparingly use the new features introduced by XML Schema: on a structural level the vast majority of them can already be defined by DTDs. Further, we introduce a class of simple regular expressions and obtain that a surprisingly high fraction of the content models belong to this class. The latter result sheds light on the justification of simplifying assumptions that sometimes have to be made in XML research.
Starting Page	79
Ending Page	84
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/1017074.1017095
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2004-06-17
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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