From: jbritt@... Date: 2003-02-19T10:48:43+09:00 Subject: Re: Validating REXML Was Re: ANN: REXML 2.5.4 > Although personally I can't think why they haven't just thrown out DTD as > a sorry mistake and moved to Relax NG ages ago.... If you have endless free time, try following the xml-dev mailing list for all the gory details. Largely it was due to a desire to maintain some SGML compatibility. James