DTD or Schema

XML schemas provide the following advantages over XML DTDs:
1 XML schemas support rich data typing, which enables you to constrain element
contents to specific values or types of data.
2 XML schemas support XML namespaces, which allow you to combine different
XML vocabularies within a document.
3 XML schemas are expressed in XML syntax, so that you can create and
modify your XML schemas with the tools you use to create and modify
your other XML documents.

Advantages of XML DTDs
XML DTDs offer the following advantages over XML schemas:
1 XML DTDs use a much simpler (although much less feature-rich) syntax.
2 XML DTDs are far less verbose than XML schemas. Most DTD files are far
fewer lines than an equivalent XML schema file.
3 At least initially, XML DTDs are more widely supported by tools that create,
process, and validate XML documents (because XML DTDs have been around
longer than XML schemas).

XML DTD 和XML Schema 各有所长，如果应用对XML的要求比较低，那就用DTD，如果应用对XML的要求很高，数据很复杂，那么选择Schema会比较好