Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 14052 invoked by uid 6000); 10 Jul 1999 11:08:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 14043 invoked from network); 10 Jul 1999 11:08:15 -0000 Received: from eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (194.128.162.193) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 10 Jul 1999 11:08:15 -0000 Received: from freeby.ben.algroup.co.uk (freeby.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.6]) by eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA23443 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 11:07:22 GMT Received: from algroup.co.uk (naughty.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.107]) by freeby.ben.algroup.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA03523 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 12:07:35 +0100 Message-ID: <3787296A.514BAA8C@algroup.co.uk> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 12:07:22 +0100 From: Ben Laurie Organization: A.L. Group plc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: XML configuration (was Re: environment patch) References: <003601beca5b$32989e10$1ba723ce@caravan.desktopdata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Status: O David D'Antonio wrote: > > Any attribute-based schema can be translated to an element-based schema. > > Exercise for the reader. > > And visa versa? No. > But having a DTD and a vaildating parser is kind of nice so that module > users can get some help if their XML doesn't work properly. Are there tools > that can generate a DTD from some "conforming" XML? Agree, and yes (but YMMV). Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi