Re: Registration of non-LDAP schemas?

[Frank_Dawson/CAM/Lotus@xxxxxxxxx]

Chris Apple wrote, in part:

"I would argue that DTDs for XML schema listings are part of the content
and not of the metadata. Schema listing service metadata is used to catalog
listings and should not contain information which actually helps to specify
the details of a particular schema."

I would disagree with your comment that DTDs are not part of the metadata
of a schema. Indeed, the structural information in a DTD provides the
relationship information about data in a schema. There is also information
about the data type for the data in the schema. This is certainly "data
about data". For example, a Document Type Definition tells one what
elements the object may be composed of, but not what the elements semantics
are. The inclusion of the DTD in the schema listing, versus a reference to
the DTD is another story.

- - Frank Dawson