xml-dev - The word "valid" in XML

[David Megginson <ak117@freenet.carleton.ca>]

Sean Mc Grath writes:

 > As far as I know "valid" has no SGML genesis. Does anyone know
 > where it came from?

An SGML parser can be "validating" or "non-validating" --
non-validating parsers are not required to report any errors, but they
must still read the DATA and produce the same output as validating
parsers.  

XML does not allow conforming, non-validating parsers in the SGML
sense (any parser without full error reporting is non-conforming), but
the PR has used the term to mean something like "a DTD-driven parser
with additional error-reporting requirements."


All the best,


David

-- 
David Megginson                 ak117@freenet.carleton.ca
Microstar Software Ltd.         dmeggins@microstar.com
      http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)