xml-dev - Re: adding new tags without error on DTD check

["Paul Tchistopolskii" <paul@qub.com>]

The easy workaround that I see is to add  the new tag to the
DTD with <!ELEMENT newtag ANY>

Rgds.Paul.

PS. However, I still think that if <!ELEMENT newtag ANY> would push
parser not to check for existance of the *clilds* definitions in the DTD,
but would realy mean 'anything that is well-formed is OK' it would
make our lifes easier  without introducing any ( even hypotetical)
trouble.  ANY is a hack anyway.

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> To be a valid XML document, each tag that exists must correspond to a tag
in the
> DTD.  So if you add a tag which does not exist on the DTD, you will no
longer
> have a valid XML document.  You could, however, still have a well-formed
> document if you added the tag in a well-formed manner.  So you could
attempt to
> validate the given document, but the response should be that the document
is not
> valid.
>
> Shawn Lauzon
>
> <Original>
> Does anybody out there know if:
>
> 1.  you have a well-formed xml file that you are parsing and validating.
> 2.  a dtd file that validates the current xml file it is checked against.
>
> If you add a new tag that is not part of the DTD description, will an
error
> result be given showing the the xml file is unable to be validated?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Adam Eyler
> </Original>
>



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