“A major Web standards group has commenced work on a more
powerful way of interpreting XML documents.
“The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [has] announced two working
drafts for Extensible Markup Language (XML) schemas. Schemas are
designed to replace document type definitions (DTDs), which
currently do the work of telling computers how to interpret various
XML vocabularies.
“This is going to be a new medium of exchange on the Web,” said
the consortium’s XML activity lead, Dan Connolly. “When you want to
document how your system works so the rest of the people in your
team can use it, this is the technology you’re going to use…”