Submission request to W3C (W3C Staff Comment)
This document proposes Document Definition Markup Language (DDML), a schema language for XML documents. DDML encodes the logical (as opposed to physical) content of DTDs in an XML document. This allows schema information to be explored and used with widely available XML tools.DDML is deliberately simple, providing an initial base for implementations. While introducing as few complicating factors as possible, DDML has been designed with future extensions, such as data typing and schema reuse, in mind.
DDML is a cooperative effort of members of the XML-Dev mailing list. For a complete list of contributors, see Appendix E, "Contributors". Historical information regarding the development of DDML is available at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ddml.
The Document Definition Markup Language (DDML) Specification, Version 1.0 document (The Submission) has been edited by Ronald Bourret, John Cowan, Ingo Macherius, and Simon St. Laurent (The Editors).
GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH (The Submitter), on behalf of and with expressly declared agreement of The Editors grants the W3C, a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, display publicly and prepare derivative works that are based on or incorporate all or parts of the Submission and to authorize others to do so, given The Editors are credited in each copy or derivative work.
The Submitter expressly disclaims any and all warranties regarding this contribution including any warranty that this contribution does not violate the rights of others or is fit for a particular purpose.
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The Submission may be distributed publicly free of any fee under the redistribution terms expressed in the W3C copyright statement.
The following points should be noted as regards licensable technology involved in any third party implementations of the technology specified in the submission:
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We suggest that the Consortium publish The Submission as a W3C-Note and that it serves as input for the XML-Schema-WG.
To help with this work, we expect to be able to provide assistance as needed to the Consortium, e.g. in form of a non-resident editor.
Should any changes be required to the document, we expect to produce them through an open process on the XML-DEV mailing list under supervision of The Editors.
Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to Ronald Bourret (technical) or Klaus Birkenbihl (legal).
Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Submitted: this 5 day of January, 1999,
Klaus Birkenbihl <klaus.birkenbihl@gmd.de>
GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH