From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@[...].com> 

>  What's a doctype?  

A doctype is a thing that allows a programmer to know what he/she/they will have to cope
with. 

A schema language is good if it clearly lets the programmer know what he/she/they 
will have to cope with.  Or, at least, what he/she/they won't have to cope with.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe



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