xml-dev - Re: Parser Behaviour (serious)

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liamquin@interlog.com>]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Tim Bray wrote:
> Another option is
> you could implement a Public Identifier resolver, which is pretty easy
> even though there's not yet a standardized interoperable scheme for this.

Public identfiers don't help here --

Consider:
<!DOCTYPE boy
    PUBLIC "anything you like"
    "http://www.xml.com/doctypes/boy.dtd"
>

You are still required to resolve the system identifier, and you can't.

The right answer is a URL resolver with a cache, like a web browser
with an "offline" mode.

I agree with David and Tim that the XML processor should have a
switch to turn off DTD processing, and do *not* agree that we
need a more complex specification for this.

XML has already got well out of hand in terms of complexity.

Lee

-- 
Liam Quin, Barefoot Computing, Toronto;  The barefoot programmer
Ankh on irc.sorcery.net, http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
co-author, The XML Specification Guide
forthcoming: The Open Source XML Database Toolkit


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