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- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- To: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:45:07 -0800
John Cowan wrote:
>
> Peter Murray-Rust scripsit:
>
> > - tool threw a fatal error because <!DOCTYPE was missing
>
> The XML Rec does not forbid a parser to treat validation errors as fatal.
But -- a missing DTD isn't a validation error. No validity
constraint says "there must be a DTD".
The validation errors start coming in when the content uses
names that aren't declared ... first one will be the root element.
It's not that subtle a point; the syntax is optional, but if you
don't use it you will certainly run into validity errors.
- Dave
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